{"text": "Dealing with serial crimes per se .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We can see the emerging behavior .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we can see that this is a behavior that is not going to stop .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You can have hundreds of individuals as suspects and can narrow the focus of your investigation to a smaller pool of people .", "entity": [{"entity": "hundreds", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it gives you a starting point .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The good news is even though at any given point in time that there are these people out there perpetrating these crimes we are getting better at catching them and better at catching them sooner So that instead of waiting until they 've committed twelve crimes or instead of having twelve murders take place before we catch somebody now we may catch them after the first or second murder .", "entity": [{"entity": "twelve", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [246, 252]}, {"entity": "twelve", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [281, 287]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [364, 369]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [373, 379]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will never in my lifetime learn why a serial killer becomes a serial killer .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But maybe the work that I 'm doing now will be able to take other people down avenues to explore with more tools with more ability to experiment with more ability to study on a hands - on basis .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I will never learn that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a psychologist through all the interviews that I 've conducted all the cases that I 've reviewed what I 've learned is that these people while bright um and while at some level charming are emotionally and spiritually bankrupt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I 've learned that there is such a thing as evil .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While criminal profiling has been the topic of best selling books and award winning films it is merely one tool used to solve crimes .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [103, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact is that often offenders are caught while committing minor crimes like traffic violations or simply because they raise suspicion of local police .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's our crime files investigation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm John Seganthaler .", "entity": [{"entity": "John Seganthaler", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From NBC news in Washington this is Meet The Press with Tim Russet .", "entity": [{"entity": "NBC news", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [5, 13]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 27]}, {"entity": "Meet The Press with Tim Russet", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [36, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our issues this Sunday North Korea 's Kim Jong - Il defies the world testing long range missiles which one day could deliver nuclear warheads .", "entity": [{"entity": "this Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [11, 22]}, {"entity": "North Korea 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 37]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Can this man be stopped /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With us from the Bush administration the third ranking official at the state department Ambassador Nicholas Burns The former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter of Harvard University 's Kennedy school of government The man who led the negotiations for the nineteen ninety four nuclear agreement with North Korea Robert Gallucci Dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University And the former US Ambassador to the United Nations who has visited North Korea five times Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 21]}, {"entity": "third", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [41, 46]}, {"entity": "Nicholas Burns", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [99, 113]}, {"entity": "Defense", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [148, 155]}, {"entity": "Ashton Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [156, 169]}, {"entity": "Harvard University 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [173, 194]}, {"entity": "Kennedy school of government", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [195, 223]}, {"entity": "nineteen ninety four", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [265, 285]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [309, 320]}, {"entity": "Robert Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [321, 336]}, {"entity": "the School of Foreign Service", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [345, 374]}, {"entity": "Georgetown University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [378, 399]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [415, 417]}, {"entity": "the United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [432, 450]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [467, 478]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [479, 483]}, {"entity": "Bill Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [499, 514]}, {"entity": "New Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [518, 528]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And in our Meet the Press Minute former President Gerald Ford turns ninety three this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meet the Press Minute", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [11, 32]}, {"entity": "Gerald Ford", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 61]}, {"entity": "ninety three", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 80]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [81, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He last appeared as president on Meet the Press thirty one years ago when he talked about age as a state of mind .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meet the Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [33, 47]}, {"entity": "thirty one years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But first North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "on the fourth of July North Korea tested medium and long range +missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "the fourth of July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 21]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and their nuclear program appears to be full speed ahead .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What is the Bush administration going to do about it /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here with us the Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns .", "entity": [{"entity": "State", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 40]}, {"entity": "Nicholas Burns", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [41, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Ambassador good morning .", "entity": [{"entity": "morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [20, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thank you Tim .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "good morning .", "entity": [{"entity": "morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [5, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will the United States insist that the United Nations impose sanctions against North Korea /?", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 22]}, {"entity": "the United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 53]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well we are pursuing a very aggressive resolution up in New York at the Security Council .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 64]}, {"entity": "the Security Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [68, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we think we 've got the votes to pass that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we 're also operating on multiple diplomatic fronts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have our lead negotiator Chris Hill Ambassador Hill in Beijing Seoul and Tokyo this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chris Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 38]}, {"entity": "Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 54]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 65]}, {"entity": "Seoul", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 71]}, {"entity": "Tokyo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 81]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [82, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Bush and Secretary Rice have been working the phones with uh their counterparts .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 've also had a very interesting development today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the Chinese Government is sending tonight to a senior delegation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [34, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you know frankly we think it 's time for China to use its influence with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Chinese have influence certainly more than the United States and the other members of the international community dealing with this problem .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China now has an opportunity to put its best foot forward , to send the North Koreans a direct message that these missile tests can not be tolerated and the North Koreans now have to come back to the September nineteenth two thousand five agreement and they 've got to denuclearize give up their nuclear ambitions and abide by the agreement that they made with the rest of us nearly a year ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [68, 85]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [153, 170]}, {"entity": "September nineteenth two thousand five", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [200, 238]}, {"entity": "nearly a year ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [376, 393]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the South Koreans and the Chinese have both said they do not believe there should be sanctions against North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "the South Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 21]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 37]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will the US absolutely insist that there be sanctions in the UN resolution /?", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 11]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you look at this UN resolution that 's under debate in New York it does .", "entity": [{"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 22]}, {"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's a chapter seven resolution so it has the effect of compulsory behavior by all the member states .", "entity": [{"entity": "chapter seven", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [8, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It says that what the North Koreans did was a threat to international peace and security .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [18, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It does ask all member states not to engage in nuclear trade with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That strikes us as an obvious point .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think what we have to do we 'll see a lot of diplomacy over the next couple of days .", "entity": [{"entity": "the next couple of days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [66, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we 'll have to see how the Chinese and Russians react to this .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 34]}, {"entity": "Russians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [39, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but our view is that the five parties ought to remain united and that the goal of the current diplomacy should be to use the combined leverage of China and Russia 's of South Korea Japan and the United States to force the North Koreans back to the negotiating table .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [25, 29]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [146, 151]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [156, 162]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [169, 180]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [181, 186]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [191, 208]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [218, 235]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's certainly the best policy for the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Force the North Koreans back to the negotiating table .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [6, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "there are many as you know Mister Ambassador who believe the North Koreans did this launch on the fourth of July to get our attention Because they saw the way we were treating Iran differently than we were treating North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [57, 74]}, {"entity": "the fourth of July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [94, 112]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [176, 180]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [215, 226]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's one Nicholas Burns on National Public Radio .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nicholas Burns", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 26]}, {"entity": "National Public Radio", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With Iran the United States has made an offer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 9]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that is we are willing to sit down and negotiate with the Iranians assuming and contingent upon their suspension of their nuclear activities at their plant in the in Iran .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 70]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [170, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why not sit down in the same way with North Koreans Say to them stop developing your program .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [38, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we 'll sit down with you one on one .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [29, 32]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [36, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well Tim we 're trying to sit down with the North Koreans in the context of the six party talks .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 8]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [40, 57]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [80, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 've been saying for months now that the right step forward is for North Korea to return to these talks .", "entity": [{"entity": "months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 29]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but we really do n't see the logic in turning this into a test of wills between two countries the United States and North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [80, 83]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 111]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [116, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact is that China has the same interest as the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 22]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It should have the same interest .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that is to stop the North Korea nuclear program .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our allies Japan and South Korea have the same interests .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 16]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and the Russians do as well .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [8, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so we think we 're far better off working within the framework of the six party talks because you get in that process the combined leverage the combined strength and frankly the combined pressure on North Korea of all these different countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 77]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [203, 214]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I simply do n't see why it 's in the interest of the United States to get those countries out of the way and only deal with North Korea directly .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 66]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [124, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So the problem here is not the lack of discussion between the United States and North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 75]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're perfectly willing to sit down with them in that six party environment .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and in that sense it 's analogous to what we 're trying to do with Iran .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Secretary Rice announced about a month ago that should the Iranians meet the condition of suspension of their own nuclear activities we 'd be willing to sit down in another multilateral forum .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "about a month ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [25, 42]}, {"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [59, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that 's with the Europeans and Russians and Chinese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Europeans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 30]}, {"entity": "Russians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 43]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So really you know the North Korea problem is not a problem just for the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 34]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What they did the other day on July fourth was to disrupt the peace and harmony of their relations with the Asian countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "the other day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 27]}, {"entity": "July fourth", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 42]}, {"entity": "Asian", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [108, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the Asian countries want to be involved in these negotiations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Asian", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [8, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it the policy of the Bush administration that we 'd like to see regime change in North Korea /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [24, 28]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well this is one of the most despotic regimes in the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's a major human rights violator .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's massive famine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And certainly we hope for the day will come when those people will live in peace and be governed by a different type of government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh what we 've got to do now of course is focus on the most immediate problem .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that problem is nuclear weapons .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The problem is the ballistic launches of the other day .", "entity": [{"entity": "the other day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [41, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think the thing to remember about those launches by the way they were provocative , they were reckless , they were also unsuccessful .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They fired four scud missiles intermediate range missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [11, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They tried to fire the longer range missile the .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that was spectacularly unsuccessful .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It crashed in the sea of Japan .", "entity": [{"entity": "the sea of Japan", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [14, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we obviously have an opportunity now for diplomacy . And an opportunity to use the combined strength of all these countries to provide some leverage put some leverage against the North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [178, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that 's what we will continue to try to do in the coming days and coming weeks .", "entity": [{"entity": "coming days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [54, 65]}, {"entity": "coming weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [70, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will the United States give North Korea security assurances that we will not attack their country or seek to undermine their regime /?", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 22]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you look back at this historic agreement that was signed in the six party frameworks on September nineteenth of two thousand five those types of assurances are in that agreement .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [67, 70]}, {"entity": "September nineteenth of two thousand five", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [91, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the North Koreans have obligations .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that is to take down their nuclear program dismantle it dismantle their weapons of mass destruction programs in a verifiable way before all those assurances can go into place .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All the other elements of the agreement can be put into place .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what we 've seen since then is we 've seen the United States and Russia and China and Japan and South Korea willing to go forward willing to sit down willing to implement this entire agreement that you just referred to Tim .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 64]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 75]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 85]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 95]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 111]}, {"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [223, 226]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but we see the North Koreans walking away from it .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [11, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we 've got to be very persistent and frankly very tough in combining with these other countries to pressure the North Koreans to live up to their commitments .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [111, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we would be willing to give North Korea increased economic aid perhaps light nuclear reactors for peaceful means and security assurance if in fact they sat down and negotiated /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The North Koreans know what 's in the September nineteenth agreement .", "entity": [{"entity": "The North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "September nineteenth", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it 's very specific about what the United States is willing to do uh to take a step forward towards them should they dismantle all their nuclear programs and their weapons of mass destruction .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But they 've got responsibilities in this agreement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and no agreement is whole until both sides meet their agreement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what we 've seen Tim especially on July Fourth is the North Koreans in outright violation of the agreement that we made with them last September .", "entity": [{"entity": "July Fourth", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [54, 71]}, {"entity": "last September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [134, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do you think the North Koreans chose July Fourth /?", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 34]}, {"entity": "July Fourth", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [41, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Oh I do n't think it was coincidental .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know it 's a very unreliable and unpredictable regime .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The last thing we want to do is react to every wild statement that they make .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but they certainly chose that to get our attention and that of the international community .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh but what they 've got to realize is there is no magic bullet here .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They ca n't just think that they can sit down with the United States alone .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That does n't work for Japan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it does n't work with South Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and frankly it does n't work with the Chinese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [38, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I said before that one of the most interesting developments here is this Chinese delegation going to .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [76, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Chris Hill our ambassador was in China a few days ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chris Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 42]}, {"entity": "a few days ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he made the point and Secretary Rice made the point yesterday to the Chinese Foreign minister , we want to see China use its influence .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 36]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [69, 76]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We want to see China push forward and ask the North Koreans to meet these commitments that they 've made to all of us .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [15, 20]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [42, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Speaker Newt Gingrich the former speaker Republican weighed in on this debate in this way .", "entity": [{"entity": "Newt Gingrich", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 21]}, {"entity": "Republican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [41, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he offered this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The time to replace the state department 's failed North Korea strategy of talk forever , act never has come .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For thirteen years the United States has talked loudly about a North Korea nuclear weapons and ballistic missile threat .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirteen years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 18]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 36]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For thirteen years the North Korean dictatorship has lied and hunkered down and continued to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirteen years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 18]}, {"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [23, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The strategy of talking has failed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "America 's actions must be decisive or faced with a brutal totalitarian dictatorship about which we know little .", "entity": [{"entity": "America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is acting in defiance of all its own international commitments .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the time for talk is over .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "either they dismantle the missile .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "or we the United States should dismantle it .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [6, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well uh with all due respect to Speaker Gingrich we are on a course which has a reasonable chance of success .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gingrich", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you never want to disavow a diplomatic track a negotiating track if you think you can resolve the problem in that fashion .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And as I said before we are not alone in this endeavor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we have countries united with us who can apply the same type of pressure .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will say this what the North Koreans have done over the past week is going to give a lot of strength in our efforts to develop a missile defense system .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 38]}, {"entity": "the past week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [54, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 've seen very strong statements by the Japanese government wanting to work with us in that realm .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So obviously we 're going to pursue a very tough very decisive policy over the coming weeks designed to focus the North Koreans on their obligations To pressure them to come back to the talks But also certainly to provide for our own defense and the defense of our treaty allies in Asia .", "entity": [{"entity": "the coming weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [75, 91]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [110, 127]}, {"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [282, 286]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think you 'll see us move ahead smartly in that direction as well .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh Mister Ambassador many critics will say the six years George Bush has been president North Korea 's program has developed rather dramatically That the policy at first of isolation and then the six party talk just has n't worked .", "entity": [{"entity": "the six years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 56]}, {"entity": "George Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [57, 68]}, {"entity": "North Korea 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 102]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [164, 169]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [196, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's the latest study from the Institute for Science and International Security .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Institute for Science and International Security", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They estimated a report that North Korea has enough separated plutonium to develop now an arsenal of four to thirteen nuclear weapons compared with estimates of just one or two weapons in two thousand when George bush became president .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 40]}, {"entity": "four to thirteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 117]}, {"entity": "just one or two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [161, 176]}, {"entity": "two thousand", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [188, 200]}, {"entity": "George bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [206, 217]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The group says that by two thousand eight North Korea could have enough plutonium for eight to seventeen nuclear weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand eight", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 41]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 53]}, {"entity": "eight to seventeen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [86, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The group 's assessment based on analysis of satellite imagery media reports and statements by North Korean officials which lead Nick Everstat a conservative critic from the American Enterprise Institute these are not Democrats /-", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [95, 107]}, {"entity": "Nick Everstat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [129, 142]}, {"entity": "the American Enterprise Institute", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [170, 203]}, {"entity": "Democrats", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [218, 227]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "although the Bush administration 's rhetoric about Kim Jong - Il and his regime has sometimes seemed ferocious North Korea 's leaders seem to have concluded that the Bush North Korea policy consists mainly of empty words and that oft repeated warning need not be taken terribly seriously .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 17]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 64]}, {"entity": "North Korea 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 125]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [166, 170]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [171, 182]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By more than one criteria indeed strategic successes on the Bush watch outshine those from its during the Clinton years .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 16]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 64]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [106, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Would you acknowledge a significant increase in the nuclear capability by North Korea on the watch of President Bush /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 85]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [112, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tim um obviously we profoundly disagree with um some of the statements that we 've just heard .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eh you know we 've got a very strong military force and deterrent force at work in Asia and particularly on the Korean peninsula .", "entity": [{"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [83, 87]}, {"entity": "the Korean peninsula", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [108, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that military can handle any contingency that should arise .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We also have a very tough policy and I think forward looking policy to develop missile defense to handle those contingencies .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But you 've got to combine military measures with diplomacy to be effective in a situation like this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact is that a lot of this criticism seems to direct the United States back to a test of wills bilaterally between North Korea and the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 74]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 130]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [135, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What we want to do is we want to ask countries that do have a great deal of influence on North Korea certainly more than we have to use that influence .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We can do that by channeling those efforts through the six party framework .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you know diplomacy sometimes ca n't succeed in a day or two or a week or two .", "entity": [{"entity": "a day or two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 63]}, {"entity": "a week or two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [67, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sometimes it takes many months or even years to succeed .", "entity": [{"entity": "many months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [19, 30]}, {"entity": "years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But if you have the right policy in place , if you know what you 're trying to accomplish and if you 're very tough - minded about applying that policy we can be successful .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we have not given up hope that we can engineer a policy that will effectively put the North Koreans back in the box take away their nuclear programs and take away their ability to inflict threats and damage on their neighbors .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [85, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have got to be single - minded about this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we certainly understand the gravity of a challenge posed by North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [60, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but frankly I do n't think these critics have offered any alternative that would have a reasonable prospect of success or lead us to unintended consequences uh if you went down the road that some of them are suggesting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we think we 've got the right policy in place .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I can assure you we 're going to drive with a great deal of energy and determination .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But you do not deny that North Korea 's nuclear capability has increased during the presidency of George Bush /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 39]}, {"entity": "George Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [98, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well North Korea says that it has a nuclear weapons capability .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we believe that it has produced that over the last several years .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last several years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that 's why we 've put in place this policy designed to take it away from them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if we can have the September nineteenth two thousand five agreement implemented it will do just that .", "entity": [{"entity": "September nineteenth two thousand five", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will effectively de-nuclearize North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so that is a good bet for the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's obviously the goal that I think all these critics that you cite would share .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we think we 've got a much more realistic in the real world strategy put in place to deal with that problem .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But there has been a profound change in the rhetoric certainly of the President on this subject .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's the President Friday at this news conference in Chicago about North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 63]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [70, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It takes a while for a problem to fester and grow .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and then it takes a while to solve them diplomatically .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It just 's the nature of diplomacy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wish we could solve them overnight .", "entity": [{"entity": "overnight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [25, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And let me go back to January of two thousand two in the President 's axis of evil speech before congress .", "entity": [{"entity": "January of two thousand two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 49]}, {"entity": "congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's watch .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "North Korea has a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction While starving its citizens .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By seeking weapons of mass destruction these regimes pose a grave and growing danger .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 'll be deliberate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "yet time is not on our side .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will not wait on events while dangers gather .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The United States of America will not permit the world 's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world 's most destructive weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "The United States of America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since the President uttered those words Mister Ambassador every estimate is that North Korea has doubled its capacity to develop nuclear weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And yet we 've driven forward with this policy designed to respond to all the things the President talked about back in two thousand two .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [120, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But he has been very consistent since then in putting forward the proposition that we have to oppose the human rights abuses of the government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have to try to draw a net around the fact that North Korea is the leading exporter of ballistic missile technology around the world The proliferator of it .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we 've done a lot to develop missile defense .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 've created and driven forward this diplomatic coalition designed to bring us to a victory in denying North Korea the nuclear weaponry that you talk about .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we have been very activist .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have followed this policy for a number of years .", "entity": [{"entity": "a number of years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh the President is right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And as I said before diplomacy ca n't be measured in a snapshot .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You ca n't just say in a Sunday morning in July that somehow because we have n't come to the end of negotiations these negotiations are bound to fail .", "entity": [{"entity": "a Sunday morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [23, 39]}, {"entity": "July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 've got to be very purposeful and directed in what you 're trying to do and apply the weight of your country and that of others to the test .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that 's what we 're doing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have not given up on this quest to come to the end of these negotiations and put the North Koreans back into a place where they can no longer be a threat to their neighbors or to the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [84, 101]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [182, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But again it 's the tone and the rhetoric .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let me go back and review some of the things the President has said about Kim Jong - Il of North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [74, 87]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I loathe Kim Jong - Il .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I got a visceral reaction to this guy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And then in two thousand four there 's a tyrant in North Korea that wants to develop a nuclear weapon .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand four", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 29]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And then this in two thousand two .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [17, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the President called him a pygmy And compared him to a spoiled child at a dinner table .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Does the President still believe that Kim Jong - Il is a tyrant a pygmy and a spoiled child .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kim Jong - Il is a despot .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And he is someone who is one of the worst offenders of human rights all over the world .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh these missile tests the other day were certainly reckless .", "entity": [{"entity": "the other day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were provocative .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so uh we have n't changed our opinion of the nature of the regime in North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No one in our government has .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are very clear - eyed about who they are , what they represent , how much they 've denied their own people the basic human rights that people should have around the world .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 're focused on this nuclear question as well .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I think there 's been a lot of continuity over American policy both in the substance of the policy and in the way we 've talked about North Korea over the last several years .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [50, 58]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [137, 148]}, {"entity": "the last several years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [154, 176]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And uh we 're determined to press ahead .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When the president talked about the axis of evil he said Iraq North Korea and Iran .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 61]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 73]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The United States invaded one of those countries Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "The United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 29]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some now make the case that Iran and North Korea took from that the following lesson that if you develop a nuclear bomb and have a strong military you will not be invaded by the US .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 32]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [178, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And both of those countries have clearly miscalculated their own situation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now the North Koreans felt I guess that by testing these ballistic missiles they would somehow put themselves in a position of greater weight in the negotiations .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They 've miscalculated because you 've seen very tough statements from the Chinese and the Russians and the South Koreans and the Japanese against what they 've done .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [75, 82]}, {"entity": "Russians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [91, 99]}, {"entity": "the South Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [104, 121]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [130, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you see momentum building in the UN security council toward a very tough chapter seven resolution against them .", "entity": [{"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 39]}, {"entity": "chapter seven", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [77, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Iranians have miscalculated .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They thought that they could divide the United States from both our European allies and from Russia and China .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 53]}, {"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [68, 76]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 99]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [104, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we 've been able to craft a major and united coalition of all those countries .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 've essentially given the Iranians a clear choice .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [33, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you 'll see a lot of this unfold this week both in Europe when Secretary Rice meets with her counterparts on Wednesday at the GA summit in St. Petersburgh At the end of the week when the president is there .", "entity": [{"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 46]}, {"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [55, 61]}, {"entity": "Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [77, 81]}, {"entity": "Wednesday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [113, 122]}, {"entity": "St. Petersburgh", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 158]}, {"entity": "the end of the week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [162, 181]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the Iranians are going to have to choose .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Negotiations with us after they suspend their nuclear programs or further action in the Security Council .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Security Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [84, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I do n't think either of these countries is on the offensive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Frankly I think both of these countries are rather cornered and isolated .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are very few countries defending them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and they 're running out of options .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we think this policy of patient diplomacy and of crafting multilateral coalitions to tighten the pressure around them is going to work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it 's the right way to go clearly for the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we want to exhaust diplomatic means before we consider other means .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Based on our experience in Iraq particularly with our emphasis on the weapons of mass destruction that did not materialize John Deutch the former head of the CIA offered this observation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 31]}, {"entity": "John Deutch", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [123, 134]}, {"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [158, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the next time military intervention is judged necessary to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction for example North Korea there will be skepticism about the quality of our intelligence .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [120, 131]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you agree with that /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "not in the case of North Korea not in the case of Iran .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 30]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tim I 've been to Europe twenty times over the last fourteen months to talk to the Europeans and the Russians and Chinese about Iran for instance .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [18, 24]}, {"entity": "twenty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [25, 31]}, {"entity": "the last fourteen months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 67]}, {"entity": "Europeans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 92]}, {"entity": "Russians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [101, 109]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [114, 121]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [128, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's not a single person at the higher levels of those government who does n't believe Iran is trying to create a nuclear weapons capability .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is n't a single person in the governments of China or Russia or South Korea or Japan who does n't believe that North Korea is bent on building up its nuclear capability .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 56]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [60, 66]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [70, 81]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 90]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no argument in the real world today about what these two countries Iran and North Korea are trying to do .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 44]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [62, 65]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 80]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no argument remotely similar to what we went through in two thousand and two and three with our European allies over Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand and two and three", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 95]}, {"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [105, 113]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [126, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact we are now tightly knit up with these countries .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if you look at what the French German and British governments are saying as well as the Russian and Chinese governments about whether or not these countries are intending to create a nuclear weapons capability they agree with our assessment .", "entity": [{"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [28, 34]}, {"entity": "German", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 41]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [46, 53]}, {"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [92, 99]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [104, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I do n't agree at all that we 're somehow limited in what we can do and limited in our effectiveness because of the disagreements that we had over WMD in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let me conclude with comments by Bill Crystal the editor of Weekly Standard .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Crystal", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 45]}, {"entity": "Weekly Standard", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he used to work for Vice President Dan Quail .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dan Quail", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "North Korea is firing missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Iran is going nuclear .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Somalia is controlled by radical Islamists .", "entity": [{"entity": "Somalia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Islamists", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [33, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Iraq is n't getting better .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and Afghanistan is getting worse .", "entity": [{"entity": "Afghanistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I give the President a lot of credit for hanging tough on Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but I am worried that it has made them too passive in confronting the other threats .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Have a preoccupation with Iraq allowed North Korea and Iran to go forward with their nuclear programs and limited our options /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 30]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I strongly disagree with that criticism from Bill Crystal .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Crystal", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I disagree for one reason .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have a very strong and active government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "from the Pentagon from the State Department the White House Treasury we are focused on all these problems .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pentagon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 17]}, {"entity": "the State Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 43]}, {"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 59]}, {"entity": "Treasury", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We created over the last fifteen months a major international coalition to corner the Iranian government And to isolate them .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last fifteen months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 39]}, {"entity": "Iranian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [86, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that 's been a diplomatic success over the last several months .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last several months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 've now got this six party talk framework we hope coming back together .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and certainly the five countries are united .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh Secretary Rumsfeld was in Afghanistan this morning .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 21]}, {"entity": "Afghanistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 40]}, {"entity": "this morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [41, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and Secretary Rice was there ten days ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 18]}, {"entity": "ten days ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we 're giving that government president government all the support it can get .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are a government that can operate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we have to operate in every part of the world .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're a global superpower .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have tremendous resources at our disposal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and frankly we 've got a first class military and a first class diplomatic effort .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we can certainly take on all these issues and be successful simultaneously .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we will be watching .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ambassador Nicholas Burns we thank you for sharing your views .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nicholas Burns", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thanks Tim .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Coming next the view of three former Clinton Administration officials who spent years dealing with the North Korea problem former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter chief State Department negotiator now at the Georgetown University Robert Gallucci And former US ambassador to the UN now Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 29]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 44]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 114]}, {"entity": "Defense", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [153, 160]}, {"entity": "Ashton Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [161, 174]}, {"entity": "State Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [181, 197]}, {"entity": "the Georgetown University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [216, 241]}, {"entity": "Robert Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [242, 257]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [269, 271]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [290, 292]}, {"entity": "New Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [309, 319]}, {"entity": "Bill Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [320, 335]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are all right here next only on Meet The Press .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meet The Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [37, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we are back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome all .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Governor Richardson should the United States negotiate directly one on one with North Korea /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 19]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 44]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [64, 67]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [71, 74]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes it should .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh our policy so far is not working .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh what you have is North Korea has quadrupled its enriched plutonium since two thousand and two .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 31]}, {"entity": "two thousand and two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [76, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh the six party talks are going nowhere .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [7, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We should talk directly to the North Koreans to discuss what is next .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They need to dismantle their nuclear weapons .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they need to destroy their missile capability .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The only way to do that in my judgment is face to face talks at a level of Christopher Hill .", "entity": [{"entity": "Christopher Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He is a competent diplomat .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh the successes we 've had with the North Koreans have been through direct engagement When I got some pilots out of North Korea When Bob Gallucci negotiated the agreed framework .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [33, 50]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 128]}, {"entity": "Bob Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [134, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Secretary Albright close to having an agreement on reducing or terminating their missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "Albright", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What North Korea is seeing right now is Iran getting a nuclear reactor .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 16]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They see Iran getting a nuclear fuel cycle that is assured economic incentives .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the other hand what they want to see is treated with respect direct talks with the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But also they want to see an effort by the United States to give them the recognition that they feel they deserve .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't believe they do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are a desolate isolated regime .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But right now our policy is not working .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It makes sense to talk directly with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But would n't the world then say oh I see .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you test a missile on the fourth of July .", "entity": [{"entity": "the fourth of July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you get the US attention .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you bring them to the bargaining table .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our policy right now does not work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Look where we are right now .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh Asia is destabilized .", "entity": [{"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [3, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are trying to outsource our foreign policy to China .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe China is not necessarily interested in helping us on North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 15]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They do n't want to see a bunch of refugees go into their country .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe that China is a competitor .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [15, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They control a lot of our debt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right now we do not have leverage over China .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The best effort in my judgment is face to face talks .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hard negotiating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Get that agreement that was uh signed in September that North Korea has not abided to .", "entity": [{"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [41, 50]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A time table for North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Efforts to set up bench marks in exchange for that armistice agreement where we do n't attack North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They get economic assistance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But our objective should be firm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To get them to dismantle their nuclear weapons .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The best way to do it is face to face talks .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the President now changed his course wo n't the headlines be Bush blinks /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe the headlines would be Bush deals realistically with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 37]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He reverses a policy that is not working .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ambassador Gallucci do you agree with that /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just about entirely .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh I have nothing against the idea of the six party talks something Nick pounded on .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 45]}, {"entity": "Nick", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh uh the virtue of having all these parties in Asia engaged that 's /-", "entity": [{"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [48, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's true .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it is their problem as well as ours .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the fact is it has n't worked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And to make the form more important than a substance To care more about whether we have six parties meeting together than whether we stop the accumulation of plutonium is absurd in my view .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [88, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'd have some conditions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you had said prior to the missile test that if they took that missile off the launch pad you 'd negotiate face to face .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now that they 've launched it would you have any conditions before you went back to the table one on one /?", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [94, 97]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is kind of a rule I think that you really try hard not to negotiate with a gun or missile to your head .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think a decent interval now and some work at the United Nations is the appropriate thing to do .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [51, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I think we 're taking a view from thirty thousand feet right now .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirty thousand feet", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [38, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "what should the administration do /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It needs to find a way to get back to the negotiating table .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the fact that you may get a headline like the President is reversing course as indeed we have in the case of Iran that 's not so bad if you find you 're on the wrong course .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we have been .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ashton Carter do you agree there should be one on one direct negotiations between North Korea and the US /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Ashton Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [43, 46]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [50, 53]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 93]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [102, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No I actually think the six party talks is a perfectly appropriate forum including for us to speak directly to the North Koreans if others are at the table .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 27]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [111, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's go back to the logic of the six party talks in the first place .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [35, 38]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [58, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The reason to have everybody at the table with the North Koreans is not only that they have a stake in the outcome as well but uh in dealing with North Korea diplomacy has to have a coercive dimension .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [47, 64]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [146, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we do n't trade with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we do n't recognize North Korea diplomatically .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh there 's almost nothing we can do short of military action to apply pressure to North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [83, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're capable of military action .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it 's important that that be an ingredient of course in diplomacy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the real levers on Kim Jong - Il are the Chinese and the South Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 36]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [45, 52]}, {"entity": "the South Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [57, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is they who essentially support the regime economically and politically .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But makes sense to have them at the table .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The six party talks I totally agree with my colleagues here have produced nothing so far except a quadrupling of the amount of plutonium as ambassador Richardson said um in North Korean hands and now missile launches .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [151, 161]}, {"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [173, 185]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So they 've been running wild for three years or so .", "entity": [{"entity": "three years or so", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [34, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um the reason for that /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "there 's a lot of blame to go around .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you have to start with the North Koreans and their own intransigence .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [23, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Chinese and the South Koreans have not done everything that they should .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "the South Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [16, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh they 've shown the carrots .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they 've been unwilling to show the sticks that they can also wield .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think on our side um it matters less who else is at the table than that we have our own wits about us as we sit down with the North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [124, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And our government I believe has been divided over the last few years as the six party talks between two camps .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last few years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 69]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [77, 80]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One camp which believes that we have to give diplomacy a try and is earnest about pursuing diplomacy with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [106, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But there 's another camp uh in this country and I think represented in the government that believes that negotiating with the North Koreans is a fools game or is even immoral because of the nature of the regime .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [123, 140]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't agree with that view because I think it 's more immoral to let North Korea go nuclear than to try to reach a deal with North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 83]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [128, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we have been of two minds .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and therefore I do n't think we at the table has been as effective as we might have been .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you showed some of that ambivalence in the earlier part of your segment where you see the US government saying one thing at one time and another thing at the other times .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 92]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [111, 114]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [124, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Though it 's important that we get our story straight .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that 's more important than who else is at the table .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You had advocated several weeks ago a preemptive military strike on the missile that was about to be tested .", "entity": [{"entity": "several weeks ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [18, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many criticize that as belligerent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and perhaps could even trigger a North Korea response against South Korea or against Japan .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 44]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 73]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "who knows .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In hindsight do you still stand by that preemptive military strike /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I want to put that in some context .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By the way I would say we should have that same position today That is if the North Koreans go out to the launch pad and erect that missile and prepare to launch it we can destroy that uh before they can do it .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [74, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To do so would be a very limited military action a single bomb a single cruise missile .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the north Koreans are n't going to start a war in response uh to that kind of action .", "entity": [{"entity": "the north Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And to those that think that 's too much I can only say where are you going to draw a line in the sand with North Korea /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At some point we have to draw a line in the sand and defend it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We say things are intolerable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we say they 're unacceptable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and then we tolerate and accept .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and I thought long and hard about this .", "entity": [{"entity": "Defense", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 27]}, {"entity": "Bill Perry", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we thought that this was a relatively nonprovocative way to draw a line in the sand with North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [93, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now I have to emphasize there 's risk in inaction also .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you may say there 's risk in this action .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but I have to emphasize there 's risk in inaction as well letting North Korea go nuclear .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Governor Richardson well how do you think the North Koreans would react if we took out their test missile /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 19]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [42, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I respectfully disagree with Assistant Secretary Carter there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But at least he 's got a new idea which the administration does not put forth .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think if we are seriously attacked or threatened , that missile which was a test was geared to the United States or to our allies we have allied responsibilities with South Korea or Japan . .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 114]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [169, 180]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [184, 189]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh you do take that step .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but the fact is that you risk uh the uh North Koreans shooting missiles at South Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [40, 53]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we 've got thirty seven thousand American forces at the DMZ .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirty seven thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [15, 36]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [37, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh but Tim I think another reason for the face to face talks is that there 're two issues that are separate from the six party talks that are a serious grievance in our relationship .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 10]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [79, 82]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [117, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "one is the fact that we have frozen financial assets of the North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [56, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe rightly so .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but that is a separate bilateral issue .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The second is our objection to dealing with North Koreans ' request for a light water reactor Which I believe has bogged down the six party talks .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "North Koreans '", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 59]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [130, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Which by the way I believe you could have a separate bilateral face to face negotiation with the United States and also continue the efforts with the six party talks because it is the South Koreans and the Japanese that are providing financial and fuel incentives .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 110]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [150, 153]}, {"entity": "the South Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [180, 197]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [206, 214]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So you ca n't cut them out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but I think it 's essential to have face to *face private bilateral talks between United States and North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 95]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But in the end it 's a judgment of North Korean intentions .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'd been there five times .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you know them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and yet a few weeks before the missile launch you said I do n't think they 're going to test .", "entity": [{"entity": "a few weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [8, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And they did .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No Tim I said I believe that they were going to test .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I did say that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what I sense in my negotiations in dealing with North Koreans /-", "entity": [{"entity": "North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [52, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You said as days go by I do n't believe they 're going to do it .", "entity": [{"entity": "days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But early on I said that they did on CBS .", "entity": [{"entity": "CBS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh my point is that when you deal with North Korea you 're not dealing with individuals like you and me .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't believe in compromise .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they believe in their only way or the highway .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their view is that their cause is right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and they 're going to wait you out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So they 're totally unpredictable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I believe the only way to deal with them and we have shown that effectively in past dealings with the Clinton Administration is direct engagement To get them to curb their nuclear weapons as Bob Gallucci did .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [106, 113]}, {"entity": "Bob Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [195, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Secretary Albright almost got a missile agreement .", "entity": [{"entity": "Albright", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh Jimmy Carter got uh an agreement which was later violated regrettably with the father Kim Jong - Il .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jimmy Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 15]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [89, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My point is that face to face discussions with the United States directly I believe is a precursor .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the continuation of the six party talks is the best way to go .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But do they keep their word /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's Madeline Albright toasting Kim Jong - Il in North Korea October of two thousand .", "entity": [{"entity": "Madeline Albright", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 25]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 48]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 63]}, {"entity": "October of two thousand", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [64, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She appeared on this program four years later .", "entity": [{"entity": "four years later", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and this was our exchange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But did n't North Korea develop a nuclear bomb on Bill Clinton 's watch /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 23]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No what they were doing uh as it turns out , they were cheating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and the reason that you have arms control agreements is that you do n't make them with your friends , you make them with your enemies .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it is the process that is required to hold uh countries accountable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ambassador Gallucci you negotiated that ninety four agreement .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 19]}, {"entity": "ninety four", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The North Koreans stopped processing in one plant if you will .", "entity": [{"entity": "The North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [40, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but we later found out that at the same time they were making uranium in another plant .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Not actually .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No that 's not what we found out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What happened was we did do a deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We did stop a uh plutonium based pro-nuclear weapons program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We made sure that eight thousand fuel rods containing around thirty kilograms enough for five nuclear weapons worth of plutonium stayed in a storage pond .", "entity": [{"entity": "eight thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 32]}, {"entity": "around thirty kilograms", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [54, 77]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [89, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the deal would have had the North Koreans end their nuclear weapons program .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [28, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We think they started cheating in the late nineties by getting some gas centrifuge equipment from Pakistan .", "entity": [{"entity": "the late nineties", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [34, 51]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [98, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We do n't know a lot about that where it is whether the equipment has been put together .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We think over a period of time they 'll do what the Pakistanis did , what the Iranians appear to be wanting to do and put together this gas centrifuge .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pakistanis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [52, 62]}, {"entity": "Iranians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [78, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But they never got there yet .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or we do n't think they 've gotten there yet .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But they broke their word .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They absolutely cheated .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's no question about that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But really you ought to be clear here what 's happened .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was a nuclear weapons program that was stopped .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Plutonium production was stopped .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And afterwards tragically I believe that agreement which locked them up was allowed to collapse .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we find ourselves now with the North Koreans accumulating plutonium a bomb 's worth a year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And freed up that plutonium that was um controlled for that period of time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And they say they 've used it to make bombs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we 'd have to estimate about five more .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [29, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And with each passing day I would argue to you more important than that missile that Ash would take out on the gantry if it turns up again with each passing day we 're going to find ourselves more and more closer than we were before to the day where that material could be transferred or sold to Al - Queda Presenting a threat far greater than the threat that is posed to us by nuclear weapons aboard ballistic missiles .", "entity": [{"entity": "each passing day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [9, 25]}, {"entity": "Ash", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [85, 88]}, {"entity": "the day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [236, 243]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We can deter a country with ballistic missiles .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We know the return address .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But with a terrorist unconventional delivery your national missile defense will not be very good against United Airlines or American Airlines Or a bus or a truck .", "entity": [{"entity": "United Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [105, 120]}, {"entity": "American Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [124, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And deterrents does n't work terribly well when an enemy values your death more than his life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So no defense no deterrents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we need to lock up the nuclear program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You would not care about the ballistic missile program if they did not have the nuclear weapons program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But you can have all the agreements you want .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "if they 're going to cheat what good are they /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Madeline Albright essentially had it correct in my view .", "entity": [{"entity": "Madeline Albright", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You make a deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nobody did that deal in ninety four thinking we were trusting North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "ninety four", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [24, 35]}, {"entity": "North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We had some transparency a measure of it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you verify .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We caught them cheating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You might make another deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think you should .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You ask the question you make another deal are you better off with the deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "or are you better off without it /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the answer to the former is yes you do the deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You do n't +ask I think the simple question have they fooled us before .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "then do n't let them fool us again .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't believe that 's the way you proceed in international affairs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It asks a very tough question about the national security .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "should we do this /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it better for us /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ask for more transparency .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Insist on it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Be tough in the negotiations Not in the formality of whether it 's six parties or it 's bilateral .", "entity": [{"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [67, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let me show you all two presidents Bill Clinton back in nineteen ninety three George Bush ten years later talking to the North Koreans in effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 23]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 47]}, {"entity": "nineteen ninety three", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 77]}, {"entity": "George Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [78, 89]}, {"entity": "ten years later", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [90, 105]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [117, 134]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I 'm asking you to put your mind in place of a North Korean watching this .", "entity": [{"entity": "a North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [49, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Clinton President Bush .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 17]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "North Korea can not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We had to be very firm about it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ash Carter both presidents making very firm resolved statements .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ash Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "if you 're in North Korean watching that knowing that you now have the potential of building eight nuclear bombs what are you thinking /?", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [14, 26]}, {"entity": "eight", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [93, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I 'm concerned that they 're thinking that we 're giving a new meaning to the word intolerable Because they keep doing things that we say are intolerable and then we tolerate them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's why I think at some point you have to draw the line with the North Koreans .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [65, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do think and here I agree with both of the other gentlemen you have on the show who have shown it 's possible to reach an agreement with North Korea and to get agreements that serve our interests The much maligned agreed framework as Bob Galluci pointed out without that agreed framework North Korea by all the calculations of the experts would now have fifty nuclear weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 150]}, {"entity": "Bob Galluci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [236, 247]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [290, 301]}, {"entity": "fifty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [356, 361]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So we were better off with the agreement than without it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is possible to reach agreement with the North Koreans But not when they see the kind of footage that you uh showed Which is uh uh uh Americans drawing a line in the sand and then stepping back from that line And drawing a line in the sand and then stepping back .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [39, 56]}, {"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [136, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think our diplomacy has to have carrots in it but it has to stand somewhere .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and as I suggested earlier I think the missile tests are a good place to take a stand .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "the North Koreans watch that .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "How do you have any strength in negotiating with people like that /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The North Koreans in my dealings with them they care more about form than they do substance .", "entity": [{"entity": "The North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In your earlier segment you showed president Bush calling him a tyrant .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [45, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But then later he called him Mister Kim Jong - Il .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [36, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The North Koreans were delighted because they felt they 'd been treated with respect .", "entity": [{"entity": "The North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They care deeply about protocol .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And this is another reason why I think for a relatively cheap price a face to face negotiation at the level of Chris Hill who again is very competent I believe would set the stage for a final agreement at the six party talks Which is essential Which is basically a good agreement .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chris Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [111, 121]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [209, 212]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In exchange for North Korea dismantling its nuclear weapons its missiles they get an armistice agreement where they are not attacked .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they get food fuel energy assistance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Security assurances we will not topple their regime .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "yeah that 's right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "that 's in that September agreement that Chris Hill negotiated .", "entity": [{"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 25]}, {"entity": "Chris Hill", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [41, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My point is if it 's just going to be a face to face meeting that serves as a precursor that also deals with this frozen assets issue which has directly hit the North Korean regime cause it controls the foreign expenditures of Kim Jong - Il and you deal with this light water reactor especially now after we 've promised it to Iran and economic incentives to Iran I think the timing is right for this new stage of direct negotiation .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [161, 173]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [227, 240]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [327, 331]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [359, 363]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ambassador Galluci based on your experience do you believe the North Koreans would give up their nuclear program give up their nuclear bombs which they believe in their mind is an insurance policy against an American invasion for economic assistance light water reactors /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Galluci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [59, 76]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [208, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the end of the day I do n't know .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um but that leaves me to conclude since I really do n't know that it 's a good idea to find out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's a good idea it was in nineteen ninety four to do a deal with the North that required them to give up the program .", "entity": [{"entity": "nineteen ninety four", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 48]}, {"entity": "the North", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We did that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "and they did give it up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Indeed you can make an argument that while the centrifuge program with the Pakistanis is clearly cheating was n't yet a genuine nuclear weapons program had n't produced anything and probably still has n't produced anything .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pakistanis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [75, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So you have the possibility if the North Koreans are thinking the way they may be thinking that they need one or the other , they need either nuclear weapons to deter the United States from regime change or they need a relationship with us that makes it unnecessary for them to have nuclear weapons .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Koreans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 48]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [106, 109]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [167, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The only way to find out whether they 'll ultimately give up those weapons is to do a deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We hear so much talk about Kim Jong - Il tyrant spoiled child .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim Jong - Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "others have said madman .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you 've been in that country five times .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [29, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "who is he /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What is he /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I 've never met him .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He is the entire nation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he is basically a cult of personality .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Uh what that causes unfortunately is an isolated North Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "His people are in terrible shape economically .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I think I 've seen one tractor .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I see people weak and drawn out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they look like they need nourishment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "They have human rights violations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He is a mercurial character .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I think he 's crazy like a fox .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He is not somebody that is uh out of his mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he may be totally unpredictable isolated .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but he 's calculating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and he 's used the Fourth of July .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Fourth of July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "every time he feels he 's backed down he moves and does something irrational .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh he shoots missiles off .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "he 's done it twice .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "he gets the nuclear inspectors out in two thousand and two .", "entity": [{"entity": "two thousand and two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the way he operates .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what we should do is take advantage of his vulnerability .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He also is vulnerable in the sense that the country is weak economically .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it desperately needs an elimination of sanctions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they need food electricity .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He 's realistic too I believe .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bill Richardson Robert Gallucci Ashton Carter thank you all for a very sobering but important discussion .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Richardson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Robert Gallucci", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 31]}, {"entity": "Ashton Carter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Coming next , President Bush celebrated his sixtieth birthday this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [24, 28]}, {"entity": "sixtieth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [44, 52]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And thirty one years ago on Meet The Press then president Gerald Ford talked about being sixty and serving as president .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirty one years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 24]}, {"entity": "Meet The Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [28, 42]}, {"entity": "Gerald Ford", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 69]}, {"entity": "sixty", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [89, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Coming up right here on Meet The Press .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meet The Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [24, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 're back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Two presidential birthdays this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Bush turned sixty last Thursday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "sixty", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 27]}, {"entity": "last Thursday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And this Friday former president Gerald Ford will be ninety three years old .", "entity": [{"entity": "this Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "Gerald Ford", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 44]}, {"entity": "ninety three years old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our thirty - eighth president talked about age health and the presidency right here thirty one years ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirty - eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "thirty one years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [84, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. President in the early days of the republic the American people took great chances on young men in the presidency .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [52, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now here we are looking at seventy six .", "entity": [{"entity": "seventy six", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and most of the leading candidates are old geezers like me in their sixties .", "entity": [{"entity": "their sixties", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now we seem to have misplaced a generation here somewhere .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "is the system out of phase .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "what explains this /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think age is a state of mind and obviously a state of health .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I feel as vigorous mentally and physically as I ever have at any time in my life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't think you should rule a person out just because they 're my particular age .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The other hand I do n't think uh you should rule out a younger person who by experience or intelligence or overall capability is a potential candidate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't think you should categorize people just by age bracket .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "that 's the criteria I would use .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "happy birthday President Gerry Ford .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gerry Ford", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And also happy birthday to another American legend .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "thirty eight years ago founded the special Olympics .", "entity": [{"entity": "thirty eight years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "the special Olympics", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [31, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She turns eighty five tomorrow .", "entity": [{"entity": "eighty five", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [10, 21]}, {"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 'll be right back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For more information on today 's guest and topic log onto the viewer resources page of our website MTP dot MSNBC dot com .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [24, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's all for today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "we 'll be back next week at our regular time .", "entity": [{"entity": "next week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If it 's Sunday it 's Meet the Press .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [9, 15]}, {"entity": "Meet the Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [22, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- basically , it was unanimously agreed upon by the various relevant parties .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To express its determination , the Chinese securities regulatory department compares this stock reform to a die that has been cast .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It takes time to prove whether the stock reform can really meet expectations , and whether any deviations that arise during the stock reform can be promptly corrected .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dear viewers , the China News program will end here .", "entity": [{"entity": "China News", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is Xu Li .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xu Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thank you everyone for watching .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Coming up is the Focus Today program hosted by Wang Shilin .", "entity": [{"entity": "Focus Today", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 28]}, {"entity": "Wang Shilin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Good-bye , dear viewers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hello , dear viewers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome to Focus Today .", "entity": [{"entity": "Focus Today", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today , let 's turn our attention to a road cave - in accident that happened in Beijing over the holiday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Before dawn on January 3 , a sewage pipe leakage accident occurred at the main and side roads of Jingguang Bridge , East Third Ring Road , Beijing Municipality , resulting in the road caving in .", "entity": [{"entity": "January 3", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 24]}, {"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [97, 113]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [116, 136]}, {"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Relevant departments from Beijing Municipality promptly activated emergency contingency plans .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The traffic administration department carried out traffic supervision near the accident scene .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , how did the emergency response mechanisms activated by governmental departments operate effectively during the holiday ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After the holiday , what will be done to handle citizens ' peak commute ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , what measures did relevant departments take to resolve issues such as waste discharge , heating , and communication , in order to ensure that the lives of citizens were not affected ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , we have invited two honorable guests to the studio today to follow this topic with us .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 26]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Hello .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Next is Yang Yang , a host of Beijing Traffic Radio Station .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 17]}, {"entity": "Beijing Traffic Radio Station", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome both of you to the studio to participate in our program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , I especially want to know , ha , how the two of you found out the news on the day of the accident ?", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [48, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , , about 11:00 m. yesterday , ah , I happened to find out through an SMS when I was outside .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 11:00 m. yesterday", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [7, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh-huh .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It happened that I was going to have lunch with a friend , um , at noon .", "entity": [{"entity": "noon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [67, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And then , the friend first sent me an SMS , Uh-huh . saying he would come pick me up to go together .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [22, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After that , I received an SMS from 1860 .", "entity": [{"entity": "1860", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [36, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh-huh , it was through an SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you , Yang Yang ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A friend happened to call me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You were not at work that day ?", "entity": [{"entity": "that day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [21, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The station called me at noon and said something happened at Jingguang Bridge and that I had to go to the station immediately to research the upcoming program .", "entity": [{"entity": "noon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [25, 29]}, {"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [61, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh-huh , that means , er , you found out the accident through an information source at the station .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right , right , right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , like Professor Zhou , I also received this news , ha , through a mobile phone SMS .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At that time , , it can be said that this SMS was among the many , ha , SMS containing New Year wishes , like Happy New Year , received after the start of the New Year .", "entity": [{"entity": "New Year", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [87, 95]}, {"entity": "New Year", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [116, 124]}, {"entity": "the New Year", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [155, 167]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , actually I felt a lot of warmth when I received that SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although we live in the west instead of the east and it did not affect us much , I think it is very useful , ah , to inform people of this kind of news .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , exceptionally .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , what in fact was the content of that SMS ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I remember the SMS was written like this at that time , saying that , ah , there was a sewage pipe leakage accident on the side road at the southeast corner of Jingguang Bridge at East Third Ring Road , and , well , traffic supervision was implemented near Chaoyang Road , Jingguang Bridge , and East Third Ring Road , and requesting cars to make a detour .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [160, 176]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [180, 200]}, {"entity": "Chaoyang Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [257, 270]}, {"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [273, 289]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [296, 316]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some car owners said that it was very good that the SMS was sent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , there was one last sentence in that SMS thanking citizens for their cooperation and support .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , after the SMS was sent , , I felt it seems to be the first time that Beijing Municipality , ah , used an SMS to give notification at the time of a public emergency .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [58, 63]}, {"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't know , all of us are living in Beijing , is this the first time , Professor Zhou ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 47]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [62, 67]}, {"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [85, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , in terms of an official notification , this should be the first time one was sent officially through 1860 .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [64, 69]}, {"entity": "1860", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [107, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , in private life , people have used SMS countless times to spread news .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Other places in the country must have used this too .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh-huh , uh-huh .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Must have used this too .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , I remember receiving an SMS like this one last year before it snowed , since snowfall would affect road conditions in Beijing to a rather large extent .", "entity": [{"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 62]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [129, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , it did not give people such a special feeling as it did this time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , when an SMS is sent to inform citizens of such an incident , can it be considered a work method or expression of government information transparency ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , this is indeed through the very successful response to this emergency , ah , by Beijing Municipality , Uh-huh . an extremely good point that is worth pondering deeply , worthy innovation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [86, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , previously our news announcements were made through some conventional methods , but this time it was made in the form of a mobile phone SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , this is a method highly emphasized in various countries ' development of e-government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We usually make it sound like e-government is something unattainable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , when we talked about e-government in the past , it seemed to be only done through the Internet .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It seemed that computers , ah , and the Internet , ah , were an expression of e-government , to let people find out information .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , presently in fact , e-governments in various countries apply this so - called last multiple - exposure method , such as call centers , such as electronic IDs , and such as , these electronic signatures .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These are quite sophisticated forms .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In particular , more terminals , such as , this cable television , ah , , this digital television , ah , and mobile phone SMS , are applied in e-government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , I think this is , a test of e-government because , as I remember , during SARS in 2003 , people at that time criticized e-government during the spread of SARS , ah .", "entity": [{"entity": "2003", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [90, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They said that e-government was very good but was not put into use .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , this time I think that a short SMS like this can fully create interaction between the government and the public through this e-government form .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We drive often in Beijing , ha , Yang Yang .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 25]}, {"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If people were not informed of such a traffic accident through SMS on that day and they continued to head there , what do you think would happen if people did not know what was going on and the jam did not clear ?", "entity": [{"entity": "that day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [70, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , well , I think it would have been real paralysis .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the most appropriate word to use .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , I think that when SMS was used to announce the news , it should be said to have fit the conditions in our China very well .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [120, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why is that so ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because , it should be said that China is the country with the highest SMS usage .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are probably not as many chances to use SMS in foreign countries compared with domestically , in China , ah .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , it can be said that penetration was quite high this time , by using the most familiar method , most used by everyone , as well as the most prompt and most convenient method , for the announcement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , I noticed that many friends , around me received it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It seems that almost everyone received this SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The effect was extremely good , ha .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , how exactly did citizens react ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's take a look at the reactions of citizens .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- an SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I saw it was that Jingguang Bridge .", "entity": [{"entity": "that Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [13, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hey , I say , this is quite good , quite good .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Have you received information like this before ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No , no .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This was the first time .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [13, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The first time ?", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , yes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , what do you think of the speed at which the government responded this time ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Quite fast .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Really quite fast , ah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , I did not drive today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [21, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I set out a bit earlier and took the subway here .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you think that the response of the government was fast this time ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , the response was quite fast .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , various media announcements were also quite prompt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Colleagues and friends also informed one another by phone calls and SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think this plan was quite speedy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It seems that through this kind of SMS , citizens responded very well and the effect was excellent , ha .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , apart from the , ah , point on information disclosure brought out by this accident , the fact is that the activation of emergency contingency plans by the , ah , government has also left people with a very deep impression .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's find out the situation at that time through some footage .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , we know that after the road cave - in accident , ah , ah , traffic police and emergency rescue personnel rushed to the scene , ah , to direct traffic and carry out emergency repair of sewage pipes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , lots of barricade tape has been strung up on the side road in the north - south direction of the accident scene beneath the Jingguang Bridge at East Third Ring Road .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [127, 147]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [151, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All personnel responsible for the emergency repair of underground sewage pipes , ah , have arrived at their designated locations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "See , through this footage , we see , ah , this --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Okay , ah , , this emergency repair worker said that he was there at 4 o'clock .", "entity": [{"entity": "4 o'clock", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [69, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That means that they arrived at the scene right after the pre-dawn accident occurred .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , it can be said that the traffic administration department was activated very quickly after receiving the news .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , ah , Yang Yang , you work at Traffic Radio Station , ha , well , and we know that you all gave an extensive live broadcast this morning .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 21]}, {"entity": "Traffic Radio Station", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [36, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A special program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , a special program on this traffic .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , let 's first turn our attention to the impact on traffic after the accident .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [12, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Judging from the traffic control measures taken after the accident , as well as the eventual impact caused , what do you think are the effects ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , concerning this , I think both of you are very familiar with the traffic in Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [87, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Previously we had a statistic , especially for the ring roads in Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , if we have an ordinary fender bender or tailgate accident on a bridge such as the Jingguang Bridge of the Third Ring Road , it might cause the entire Third Ring Road to have bumper - to - bumper traffic jams during these morning and evening peak periods .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [88, 108]}, {"entity": "the Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [112, 131]}, {"entity": "Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [160, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It might even impact traffic on the Second Ring Road and Fourth Ring Road .", "entity": [{"entity": "Second Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [36, 52]}, {"entity": "Fourth Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [57, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , ah , if there is an accident , from the time it occurs until the time all traffic is cleared , it probably takes about half an hour to an hour during peak periods .", "entity": [{"entity": "about half an hour to an hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [120, 149]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , we could not imagine imposing temporary traffic restriction measures on a long section of road stretching from Jingguang Bridge to Changhong Bridge from the south all the way to Guomao Bridge , blocking the main and side roads .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [118, 134]}, {"entity": "Changhong Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [138, 154]}, {"entity": "Guomao Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [185, 198]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , the situation would be unthinkable during this peak period that is the first day of work for everyone .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [78, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , at that time , before 6:30 a .m . today , before our live broadcast , we moved the broadcast forward , and before the live broadcast we were very worried .", "entity": [{"entity": "6:30 a .m . today", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [30, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , actually after the entire day today , I came here right after ending the live broadcast this evening to continue with the live broadcast here , in fact , in Beijing today people indeed experienced an extremely high volume of traffic flow on the roads surrounding the section under traffic control , and indeed there was a very big traffic jam .", "entity": [{"entity": "the entire day today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [25, 45]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [167, 174]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [175, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the affected area was not as large as expected .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , some people made detours once they received the news .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Psychologically , people felt quite relieved .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because I know this situation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right , like those whom we interviewed just now .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was easy to handle once everyone understood .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , ah , , a citizen , he said , I set out today before the incident , and I did not drive after I was informed .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [45, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That person did not even drive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , in this aspect , I think that citizens were really quite cooperative .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , this evening , we , received an SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A friend said , I work on the 12th floor of the China World Trade Center at the Guomao Bridge , ah .", "entity": [{"entity": "12th", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [30, 34]}, {"entity": "the China World Trade Center", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [44, 72]}, {"entity": "the Guomao Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [76, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We were discussing that we could go home in fewer cars since everyone was on the same route .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Later on , we suggested to him and said , you , ah , might as well take the subway , because you can directly reach the subway once you get down from the China World Trade Center .", "entity": [{"entity": "the China World Trade Center", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [150, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hey , he said this was quite a good idea .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , I think everyone was quite cooperative and also quite supportive in this aspect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , many , viewers not in Beijing may not be quite familiar , ah , with this road section we just mentioned , where , ah , the accident occurred .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , we can take a look later through an animation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This road represents a main road on East Third Ring Road , with problems on both the main and side roads .", "entity": [{"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [36, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , Chaoyang Road is an intersection .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chaoyang Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [14, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Whether it is Chaoyang Road in the east - west direction or the main and side roads of East Third Ring Road in the south - north direction , as we can see from this diagram , it can be said that the area at the main and side roads of East Third Ring Road normally has quite heavy traffic , especially during commuting times .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chaoyang Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [14, 27]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [87, 107]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [234, 254]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , Chaoyang Road is a very important artery in the east - west direction .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chaoyang Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [7, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When people living in the west want to cross over from the city , they have to go via this road .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , if a traffic accident occurs at this place , we can indeed imagine , ha , how widespread , ah , the extent of the impact will be , such as the number of cars caught in traffic jams .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , actually I think everyone can see that from the buses that cross Jingguang Bridge .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [71, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As buses that cross the Third Ring Road are currently , right now affected by the Jingguang Bridge accident , ah , the latest results this morning show that 32 bus routes throughout the neighborhood have had to be rerouted .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [20, 39]}, {"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [82, 98]}, {"entity": "32", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [157, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , I think that perhaps many friends in other places are wondering how one place is able to accommodate 32 commuter routes .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [75, 78]}, {"entity": "32", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [108, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the accident did not happen , perhaps everyone would not know that this place could normally have so many --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is really like this , just look at the bus signs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Have not seen so many buses .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Its effect on people has been extremely extensive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , what measures did the traffic control department eventually take to direct traffic ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our correspondent specially interviewed Director Meng Xianlong , Mr. Meng Xianlong , of the Command Center of the Beijing Municipal Traffic Administration .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meng Xianlong", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 62]}, {"entity": "Meng Xianlong", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 82]}, {"entity": "the Command Center of the Beijing Municipal Traffic Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [88, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's hear what Director Meng said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meng", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , our traffic control department immediately activated the traffic emergency response plan .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the roads close to where the problem emerged , we first set up traffic diversion points for traffic control at the southern and northern ends .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [53, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this way , all vehicles going along East Third Ring Road had to make a detour to go on roads on the east and west sides .", "entity": [{"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [39, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "East Third Ring Road is a traffic artery in the east of Beijing that links the north and the south .", "entity": [{"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to ensure smooth traffic in the eastern district , we formulated a set of traffic diversion control plans .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We set up traffic diversion points at 68 locations along East Second Ring Road , East Fourth Ring Road , West Dawang Road , ah , and related roads to the east and west , and deployed more than 210 additional police officers to divert and direct traffic .", "entity": [{"entity": "68", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [38, 40]}, {"entity": "East Second Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [57, 78]}, {"entity": "East Fourth Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [81, 102]}, {"entity": "West Dawang Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [105, 121]}, {"entity": "210", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [193, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It can be said that measures were very promptly taken .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , today is the first workday after the New Year holiday .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 10]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [18, 23]}, {"entity": "New Year", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [42, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , what exactly was the situation this morning ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We specially sent a reporter to the scene this morning to shoot some footage .", "entity": [{"entity": "this morning", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's take a look at the situation this morning through this footage .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , from this footage , we can see that , ha , at East Third Ring Road , ah , near Guanghua Bridge , the roads here that lead to the vicinity of Jingguang Bridge have come under control and , well , various kinds of signs have also been placed at very conspicuous locations .", "entity": [{"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [53, 73]}, {"entity": "Guanghua Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [86, 101]}, {"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [148, 164]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although the outdoor temperature in Beijing has fallen to minus 3 degrees , the traffic police deployed additional manpower on the roads to direct traffic , ah , and guide drivers in making detours .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 43]}, {"entity": "minus 3 degrees", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [58, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , since direction of traffic was carried out on the periphery , the number of vehicles at the section of the accident was significantly less than usual , with road traffic very orderly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , it can be said , ah , Yang Yang , citizens , regardless of whether they took the bus or drove , their mentality , in terms of being understanding or calm , ah , was a very important factor in having orderly traffic at the scene .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right , right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", through your listeners , what kind of feedback did you find out from them ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , this morning , some listeners , ah , also happened to tell us about it via mobile phone SMS .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since we know that Jingguang Bridge is located in the CBD district , well there are many office buildings , ah , a lot of them , as well as quite a lot of friends who get up early in the morning to go to work .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jingguang Bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [19, 35]}, {"entity": "CBD", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [54, 57]}, {"entity": "early in the morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [174, 194]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , they sent SMS saying , hey , it is unusual , ah , for me to be walking to the bus station today or going to take the bus .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [102, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , it is unusual for me to enjoy a very pleasant morning .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We then reminded everyone to wear extra clothing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This shows that when people encounter such kind of emergency , they have started to be able to face it with a very calm and pleasant state of mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think that this mentality in facing emergencies , in one respect shows a great change of mentality that Beijing citizens now have after enduring several tests in the past , and a kind of calmness and maturity after having experienced frustrations .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 58]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [106, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the other hand , I think it can also fully show the level of people 's satisfaction with emergency mechanisms of the operational departments of the government in handling this incident .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , they think that the government has tried its best .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , in this respect , we citizens should also contribute our efforts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As such , in this regard , I think people 's mentality can become very calm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , Professor Zhou , from this perspective , is this one highly positive effect achieved after information was disclosed ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 21]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [56, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In terms of citizens ' mentality .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , in fact it can be seen from this particular case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , when the government was handling this kind of public emergency , well , it went from a traditionally unilateral administrative management method , well , a method in which information was quite delayed , to disclosure and transparency of information , and very fast as well .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We know that in the past , disclosure of information had to be reported to higher authorities , level by level , until the highest authorities had given approval , before information could be disclosed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Time was lost .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , yes , the State Council has , er , put forth a regulation concerning the establishment of public early warning mechanisms .", "entity": [{"entity": "the State Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , related information that can be publicized will be publicized first , in order to guide people in what to do .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [72, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this way , related interaction between the government and the people can be formed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , in modern public management , ah , this is a very good case , that is , of shifting from a kind of unilateral administrative management to public management and to positive interaction between the government and the people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think in fact , we can sum up many beneficial experiences from this case and actually extend them to other areas .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , this is when we look at this case from the perspective of traffic .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Traffic was the first thing to be impacted when this , cave - in accident occurred .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , this accident actually involved many underground pipes , such as sewage pipes , ah , or water , ah , and gas , ah , pipes , that affect the lives of citizens in many other aspects .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yang Yang , do you know how many pipes there are underground ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right now , there should be seven main types of pipes buried underground .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They include those like you just mentioned , as well as pipes like those for heating and communication , among others .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Truly , these pipes are closely linked to the lives of citizens .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Closely linked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , therefore besides our attention to the traffic issue just now , people are also very concerned , ah , with the situation after the accident , with other aspects affecting citizens ' lives .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's take a look again at this footage of the situation of dealing with the current scene .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , according to our understanding of the situation , the Beijing Municipal Construction Commission , ah , the Communication Commission , ah , and telecommunication , traffic , and other departments have assigned personnel to participate in emergency repair work .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Beijing Municipal Construction Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 100]}, {"entity": "the Communication Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [108, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Relevant departments said that they will adopt a full range of measures to minimize the level of impact on people 's daily lives and work , in order to ensure stable order in society during the recovery period .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , looking at the government 's response to this cave - in accident , ah , we should say it was very prompt with traffic management and emergency repair , ah , because it involved various aspects of life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , ah , Professor Zhou , as this incident involved many departments after it took place , how do you think the various departments should coordinate between themselves ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is also --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is not the case that this problem will be totally solved when one department shows up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , I think as we build this kind , er , of public , this kind of emergency mechanism for public incidents , ah , has been the , most difficult to resolve , an actual problem that has been the most difficult to resolve among administrative management reforms in various countries .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How many groups of people will be sent ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many groups .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , this is because social management requires division of labor in society .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is necessarily a labor division trend that involves many departments , and in addition , a kind of modern management public administration model which is diversified .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How can cooperation be formed between departments in this kind of situation ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , sometimes under normal circumstances , sometimes , we often feel that it is very difficult for departments to cooperate with one another .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , there are too many law enforcement departments and , ah , too many administrative departments , and very often in the end , they are unable to coordinate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , this time , through the execution of emergency contingency plans by Beijing Municipality this time , ah , it should be said that the response speed of the different departments of Beijing Municipality , as well as the integrated emergency mechanisms , played a great role .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 98]}, {"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [190, 210]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , I think this was also a kind of , er , trial of interdepartmental cooperation mechanisms .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was a very successful , er , response .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think many good things can be summed up from this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yang Yang , based on your understanding , ah , as pipes that directly affect many common people 's lives were damaged after the accident , based on your understanding of the situation , how was remedial work carried out ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , it is very cold during winter in Beijing , and the temperature last night dropped to one of the lowest points recently .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 55]}, {"entity": "last night", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [78, 88]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [100, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Er , heating pipes were indeed damaged .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , at the time , it affected residents living in an area of about 70,000 square meters of Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 70,000 square meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [64, 90]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , , in this regard , the Chaoyang district government did a very good job .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chaoyang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After it , er , received this order from the municipal government , it immediately sent , electric heaters to residents in more than 200 households within this area .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [123, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It should be said that many residents spent quite a warm night at home yesterday .", "entity": [{"entity": "yesterday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [71, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , furthermore , in the emergency repair process , ah , it should be said that the heating pipeline was restored relatively quickly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , over here , I think the municipal government , ah , including sub-district offices , made a lot of effort to take good care of resident households .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it was done in a very humanitarian manner .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Professor Zhou , actually for such a large scale city as Beijing that has more than 14 million people , ah , for such a big city , a suddenly occurring public emergency like this should be said to be relatively common .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 64]}, {"entity": "more than 14 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it should be unexpected yet at the same time within expectations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , we see that other , er , domestic and overseas cities have experienced similar incidents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps many overseas cities have had such kind of thing before .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because a city is a gathering place for modern life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is a highly civilized place , as well as , however , in fact a gathering point for various conflicts , social , economic , security , various aspects of conflict .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence it is not at all surprising for such an accident to occur .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The critical thing is --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the critical thing is how emergency plans are activated after the occurrence of such accidents , and for a city , this is a test of its response capabilities .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , I think through a few incidents that happened in Beijing Municipality over recent years , such as SARS , the snowfall a few years ago , the heavy rains two years ago , and the road cave - in at East Third Ring Road this time , I think it can be seen that Beijing Municipality 's response capabilities continued to improve each time .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 75]}, {"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [81, 93]}, {"entity": "a few years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [124, 139]}, {"entity": "East Third Ring Road", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [200, 220]}, {"entity": "Beijing Municipality 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [261, 284]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It can be said that this time , what was done has received favorable comments from everyone .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , well , I think , Yang Yang , perhaps you have stronger feelings on this aspect , ah .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because you often have this kind of direct SMS exchange with listeners .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is because , we , Beijing Traffic Radio Station , has become a part of emergency planning in Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Traffic Radio Station", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 50]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [96, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , Beijing Traffic Radio Station is to be activated as a media for emergency plans that are grade three and above .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Traffic Radio Station", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [7, 36]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [102, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , for instance , as people still vividly remember , at the time of that snowfall just mentioned by Professor Zhou that people still vividly remember , there were no plans .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [114, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Beijing Municipality still had no emergency plan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , at that time , it happened that I was hosting the Unblocked All the Way program in the studio that evening .", "entity": [{"entity": "Unblocked All the Way", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [57, 78]}, {"entity": "that evening", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [101, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , at that time , traffic was not at all unblocked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , at that time there was none of this kind of interaction .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was not clear , it was very congested .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You sat inside the studio and only knew about the heavy snowfall .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You could find out other news only by telephone .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The various methods and channels were extremely unclear .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , later , when we experienced that rainfall in Beijing , that rainfall two years ago , as well as some days of sand storms , all channels and early warning mechanisms were activated in quite an orderly manner .", "entity": [{"entity": "two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [76, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From our perspective as media , I think it was precisely by going through those breaking - in , trials that we could be so calm in handling such an emergency today , ah , and give everyone the most effective announcements and notifications , and instructions .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [158, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , therefore , as a local media in this city , it should become a proactive participant when there is a public emergency in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It should play its individual role in the process of resolving emergencies .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , apart from this , Professor Zhou , what do you think are the areas for improvement for a city , especially a booming city , when handling this kind of public emergency ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right , I think this gave us many revelations , ah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First , I think one that should be especially important is early warnings and forecasts .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because currently , there are , ah , frequently various kinds of risks lurking in cities , ah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Early warnings and forecasts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , this kind of early warning and forecast mechanism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is not only for , this kind of sudden road cave - in , it also includes , for instance , security incidents , ah , in our society , as well as natural disasters , ah , and including public health incidents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , this kind of scientific early warning and forecast mechanism must be set up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this way , you can manage and resolve an abnormal situation by turning it into a normal situation , without evolving into a sudden public emergency .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another thing I want to say is that besides , ah , emergency response and speedy integration mechanisms , I think some corresponding improvements should be made to the release of information , incident investigation , ah , and the relevant post-incident , responsibility system .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , , that is , we should say that the government already has quite a number of relevant systems in this respect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , we have an administrative investigation system for incidents of major responsibility .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have regulations on investigation procedures for very major incidents , as well as others such as emergency response methods for handling public health incidents and public health emergencies , among others .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is to say , we have many corresponding systems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the question is how city management , er , handles these various kinds of perhaps unpredictable cases .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since we are entering new circumstances of human living , circumstances that contain high risk and have an increasingly developed urbanized life , well , I think corresponding improvements should be made to the formation of a series of systems that includes scientific planning , early warning and forecast , emergency response , accident investigation , and accountability .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , well , based on your understanding of the situation , and from an international perspective , what are some better ways of urban management that are worthwhile for us to learn ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think , in comparison to China , we should say that urbanization in foreign countries developed earlier and is more widespread .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their level of development is more advanced than ours .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although the scale of our urbanization is currently expanding at a rate of 1 % per year , I think , with our economic development being relatively backward , we actually still have many aspects of urban management to learn from foreign countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [75, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , many of the pipes involved in this incident were basic infrastructure , public utilities industries .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With a background of liberalization , marketization , and privatization , how can the government strengthen supervision of public utilities industries ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How can a safe , assured system be established ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , we need to learn and manage this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , regarding information disclosure , well , our speed of information disclosure this time was very fast .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , we still have a lot of work to do in making the information disclosure , er , system more standardized , that is , to really implement a system of levels of responsibility .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , we also need to explore how cooperation mechanisms between departments execute cooperation under normal situations and , well , how departments should cooperate with one another under these kinds of public emergency circumstances .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , for some of our emergency contingency plans , well , ah , how will these emergency contingency plans withstand these tests ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We know that currently , many ministries and commissions , as well as people 's governments at the provincial level , along with those at municipal and district levels , have set up emergency contingency plans for public emergencies , but many of them have not been put to the test .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , how will they undergo testing ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These also include some of our command and policy - making systems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , with the growth of urbanization and with more and more of such complicated issues , ah , I think there will be increasingly high requirements on the systems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is , development of future systems is one of the top current priorities .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How can we institutionalize our response mechanisms and make them into a system so as to ensure the lifestyle of people who live in such a large - scale city ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The State Council has proposed a public emergency contingency plan , called One Plan , Three Systems .", "entity": [{"entity": "The State Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [76, 79]}, {"entity": "Three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [87, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" One plan \" refers to the contingency plan , and \" three systems \" refers to systems of organizations , mechanisms , and laws .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [2, 5]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [52, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , I think we still have a lot of work to do in these three areas of organizations , mechanisms , and laws .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [56, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , finally , let 's turn our attention to handling of the situation , ah , during the latter stages of the cave - in accident in Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [133, 140]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Traffic , ah , can be said to have been directed , and is basically under control now .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , following this , repairs have to be made on this road section where the accident occurred , including for many pipes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well , Yang Yang , based on your understanding , how long will it take ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think that the time really depends on how the overall repair goes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because exploration , assessment , and repair are carried out in succession .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , regarding this work progress , to repair this road section in the shortest time , um , this will depend on the work progress .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because repair is probably not a matter of repairing the road surface alone .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is also an issue with many of the pipes below .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , the pipes below .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right , as it is winter , we know that carrying out construction during winter , especially that which requires pouring concrete and then --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , it is especially difficult for concrete to set during winter .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , preparation mix for making it dry faster , has already been added .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But in the end , it requires time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , it depends very much on factors like temperature .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just now , you mentioned that there are many pipes , ah , for instance , there is a key heating pipeline .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The first thing is to ensure that it is connected in time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , waste discharge is also very important .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Waste discharged has currently blocked this up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , and , for instance , optical fibers , ah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Er , right now , if the optical fibers break , people in many households will not be able to watch television .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , we should not have a problem with watching television .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are not broken .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is just that , as the other pipes have to be repaired , the optical fibers have to be rearranged , to be hung up it seems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After that , or it seems that a few steel pipes have been added below to make it safer to walk across this section .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , let 's take water pipes as an example .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because they were exposed , The water pipes were not --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "after that , yes , these were not damaged .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they were not damaged and this is quite normal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , there is no problem with water supply .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Okay , well , today both of you have come to the studio and given us a lot of specific details concerning this road cave - in accident in Beijing Municipality .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 19]}, {"entity": "Beijing Municipality", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [138, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the same time , you have also analyzed , from a system perspective , how the government has reinforced emergency contingency plans to handle such public emergency cases .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Okay , thank you very much , Professor Zhou and Yang Yang , for coming to the studio to participate in our program .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 43]}, {"entity": "Yang Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thank you , both of you .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Okay , dear viewers , that is all for today 's edition of Focus Today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 43]}, {"entity": "Focus Today", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [58, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thank you for watching .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "See you at the same time tomorrow .", "entity": [{"entity": "the same time tomorrow", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [11, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's turn our attention to the weather .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today , we can use two words to summarize the weather in our country .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First , there will be a temperature drop over a large area , and next , there will be rainfall and snowfall in an extensive area as well .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We see that except for some areas of South China , Southwest China , and Northeast China , many other places will be experiencing temperature drops .", "entity": [{"entity": "South China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "Southwest China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [51, 66]}, {"entity": "Northeast China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [73, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , there will be snowfall in the area from Northwest China to the Huang - Huai area through southern North China .", "entity": [{"entity": "Northwest China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [54, 69]}, {"entity": "Huang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 82]}, {"entity": "North China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [112, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The east of Southwest China , as well as the Jiang - Huai area and the area south of the Yangtze River , will experience continuous rainfall .", "entity": [{"entity": "Southwest China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [12, 27]}, {"entity": "Jiang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}, {"entity": "the Yangtze River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [85, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , southern North China and the Huang - Huai area will bid farewell to the snow tonight , ah .", "entity": [{"entity": "North China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [19, 30]}, {"entity": "Huang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 44]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [87, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tomorrow during the day , snowfall in the Jiang - Huai area will stop , and there will also be less snow in Northwest China .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tomorrow during the day", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 23]}, {"entity": "Jiang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 47]}, {"entity": "Northwest China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [108, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , there will be rain throughout almost the whole of South China .", "entity": [{"entity": "South China", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [64, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It can be said that there will be less snow in the north and heavier rain in the south tomorrow .", "entity": [{"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [87, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , temperatures tomorrow in many places south of the Huai River will fall by between four and ten degrees .", "entity": [{"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 35]}, {"entity": "the Huai River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [60, 74]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [96, 100]}, {"entity": "ten degrees", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [105, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Okay , let 's check out the city weather forecasts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Beijing , overcast changing to sunny , 9 degrees below zero to 2 degrees below zero .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "9 degrees below zero", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [39, 59]}, {"entity": "2 degrees below zero", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [63, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Harbin , sunny , 26 degrees below zero to 16 degrees below zero .", "entity": [{"entity": "Harbin", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "26 degrees below zero", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [17, 38]}, {"entity": "16 degrees below zero", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [42, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Children are left at home in the rural areas , after parents leave to work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These are called left - behind children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The parents are also forced to work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , they have no alternatives but to make such a decision .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are 120 million farmers who work in the city all year round in China , thus creating nearly 20 million left - behind children .", "entity": [{"entity": "120 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 21]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 74]}, {"entity": "20 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [98, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I want to tell them that I miss them a lot .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Day after day and year after year , they long for love in loneliness and wait for family affection in defect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think that it is especially important to have emotional exchanges with the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Visit the children more often whenever possible .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In September 2005 , a study report titled \" Concern for Left - behind Children \" had drawn wide public attention .", "entity": [{"entity": "September 2005", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 17]}, {"entity": "\" Concern for Left - behind Children \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [42, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While the situation of peasant workers in the city has repeatedly put society into question , the phenomenon of left - behind children in rural areas has gradually entered the view of the public .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ye Jingzhong is the assistant dean of the College of Humanities and Development at China Agricultural University , and team leader of the Left - behind Children Task Force .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ye Jingzhong", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "the College of Humanities and Development", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 79]}, {"entity": "China Agricultural University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [83, 112]}, {"entity": "the Left - behind Children Task Force", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [134, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the last two years , he has led the task force to conduct many field interviews and investigations on left - behind children in numerous rural areas in central and western China , including Shaanxi , Ningxia , Hebei , and Beijing .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 21]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [175, 180]}, {"entity": "Shaanxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [193, 200]}, {"entity": "Ningxia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [203, 210]}, {"entity": "Hebei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [213, 218]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [225, 232]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why did you pick the central and western parts of China , and not the south , to conduct this study ?", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First of all , for people who work in the city from the central and western regions um , uh , according to their educational level , they generally engage in strenuous manual labor when they leave for the city to work .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are not in a position to bring their children to the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When we conducted this research study , our focus was to analyze the impact on children when their parents , work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", its main impact is the lack of love because of the absence of their parents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , we believe that whether it 's in southern or northern part , no matter which part of the country the research is conducted in , the results should be consistent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to your estimation , how many left - behind children are there in China now ?", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This group should be the biggest in number .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , the most conservative statistics for the group of people who leave the country to work in the city in our country is 100 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "100 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [122, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nowadays , um , , um , many places , um , cite a figure of 120 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "120 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many people quote a figure of 150 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "150 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [30, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's think about it this way .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we actually use 120 million as the statistic for the group who leave the country to work in the city , , at least half of them are um , married before they work in the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "120 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 30]}, {"entity": "half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [117, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , families of these married people will usually have children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , they will usually have more than one child in rural areas .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [34, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So you can imagine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe the left - behind children group is definitely more than 10 or 20 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 10 or 20 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It , uh , , in my opinion , should be around 50 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "50 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [45, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , we have not conducted exact statistical calculations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe the number of this group should be particularly large .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to the study by the task force , at present , the four main types of custody for left - behind children include single - parent custody , skip - generation custody , relative custody , and same - generation custody . Among which , single - parent custody had the highest number , accounting for 79.2 percent of the people surveyed .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [60, 64]}, {"entity": "79.2 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [305, 317]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The next one was skip - generation custody , accounting for 16.9 percent . While those who lived with relatives or were entrusted to the care of someone else made up 4.1 percent and .9 percent of the total number of left - behind children , respectively .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [9, 12]}, {"entity": "16.9 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [60, 72]}, {"entity": "4.1 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [166, 177]}, {"entity": ".9 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [182, 192]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to your study , what do these left - behind children generally do with their daily life if their parents or parent work in the city ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Different types of custody have different impacts on their life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No doubt , , single - parent custody definitely creates less impact compared to the other types .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The impact of single - parent custody is smaller because at least the mother is at home .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no major problem in the children 's material life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , there are many impacts in other aspects , for instance , peer socialization .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The one that creates a huge impact is definitely skip - generation custody .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Skip - generation custody means the grandparents look after the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is also relative or neighbor custody that asks neighbors or relatives to look after the children , and there is a type called self - custody .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These three types create the biggest and the most impact .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [6, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we want to discuss this in more detail , let 's say , the skip - generation custody .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First , in skip - generation custody , their material life will no doubt be a lot less taken care of when compared to the usual both parents or one parent at home situation .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is indisputable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This type of family is not as good as the others .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We had an example of a child in Shaanxi province .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shaanxi province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , there was a family !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This family had an older brother and a younger sister .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Both parents wanted to go to the city to work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "What happened to these two children ?", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The grandparents were unwilling to take care of them because in rural areas , grandparents also have to work in the field !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a result , , this mother sent , these brother and sister , to martial arts school to study .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After they went to the martial arts school for a while , um , their mother was , um , a little worried , so she went to visit them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She went to visit them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When she saw them , , the girl cried to her and said , \" I really do n't want to stay here .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I want to go home . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Later , the mother was moved and brought , this girl home and had the grandparents look after her .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , she still , ai , left him at the martial arts school .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , um , after the girl returned , the mother continued to work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When she came back one time in between work , she found that the girl 's body was dotted with red marks and red swellings .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She then discovered ah , um , the grandparents had not washed her clothes for a very long time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The situation you mentioned , is it common or is it a rather extreme example , because generally , people will think that grandparents will particularly love and care about their grandchildren ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The situation that I just mentioned regarding skip - generation custody is no doubt common .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why is it so ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You said that grandparents certainly have special love for the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is true .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is true that they will go out of their way to pamper the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , for the elderly , with the difference in age and time , , their , ways of taking care and loving the children are different .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are influenced by their own habits .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , there was a child who was sick .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , the grandparents asked him to take , a small pill that was made in Shaanxi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shaanxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They did not even know what it was made of .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was a local method .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , after all , they are different from , um , young people in this respect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Instead of sending the child to the hospital as quickly as possible , they are influenced by , some habits in this aspect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", they raised this point themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another important point they mentioned was that they had to take care of the entire family .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Her father and mother are not home , so the entire family falls onto our shoulders , especially when we still have to be responsible for the farm work on the farmland .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , all I can do is to feed her and make sure that she is not cold . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They also had to face such a reality , one that they could not resolve .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After all , a family that had so many people in the beginning , , the parents of the children were a very important um , workforce .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now it was down to the two grandparents .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No doubt , they could not help .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Farmers who work in the city are generally a young workforce in their prime , while this is the period in which their children attend primary or junior high school .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Originally , they work in the city out of the hope that their children can receive a better education .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , adolescent children need the loving care and guidance of their parents even more .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "During this period , the absence of both or even one parent will create obstacles to the character development of the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This pair of unavoidable contradictions has made the problem of left - behind children in rural areas become more obvious .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You have seen many kinds of left - behind children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Was there a particular case or a particular child who had left an especially deep impression on you that you still remember now ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", um , there was a child in Ningxia whose name was Yao Zhengang .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ningxia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "Yao Zhengang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This child , um , did not do exceptionally well in school .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What impressed me the most about him was that he really missed his parents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He felt particularly lonely and especially wanted his father to come back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "His father worked in Guyuan , about 40 to 50 kilometers away from home .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guyuan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 27]}, {"entity": "40 to 50 kilometers", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [36, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After his father learned that he was very sick , he ran back to the village right away .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After he arrived at the village , he did not say anything , but to put him on his back and carry him to the town to see a doctor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He just carried him like that without saying a word .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I thought about this at that time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He might have felt especially guilty toward his child .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What he felt was that \" I go out to work and leave my child home . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said that his child had also said , \" When he was at home , he always encouraged me . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He would say , \" No problem . You work hard and get a better grade next time , \" when I had low grades .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If he could receive many , such encouragements , he would not have um , um , disliked school sometimes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He does not want to go to school now .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , in his example , I could imagine what went through his father 's mind at that time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think that he felt very guilty toward his child .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , I can feel that um , um , parents who work in the city also have no alternative .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are forced into making such decisions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , there was also this child .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was a child , a girl in Xixiang county , Shaanxi province .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xixiang county", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 44]}, {"entity": "Shaanxi province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , when I asked , \" What do you think are the changes that your parents working in the city have caused you ? \" She did not answer .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She went home to get a small box .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was a small finger inside the box .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This was a very terrifying incident .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What was the small finger all about ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What happened was that when her um , parents left to work in the city , her grandparents looked after her .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They had a cellar at home and inside was a hay cutter for cutting hay .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When she went downstairs to play by herself , an accident happened .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Her grandparents said , \" We ca n't help .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We ca n't keep an eye on her all the time . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", before they went to work in the city , they could watch her and forbade her to go down to the cellar .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He had told her not to do that before .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , I said that sometimes it is very difficult to ask children to have self control .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That was why she turned this way .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is Ruangang village , Bocang town , Yi county , Hebei province .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ruangang village , Bocang town , Yi county , Hebei province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [8, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Among the 303 households in the village , one - third of the families have people who work in the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "303", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 13]}, {"entity": "one - third", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "More than half of the children in the village are left - behind children .", "entity": [{"entity": "More than half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Most of the children 's parents are in the southern part of the country .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many people want to save some travel expenses and earn some more money , so it is very common for them not to return home for a year or two .", "entity": [{"entity": "a year or two", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [126, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Life is so vast .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Life is an ocean wherever life exists .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It has been six years since 14 - year - old Jiang Beiwen was sent by his parents to live with his maternal grandfather in Ruangang village .", "entity": [{"entity": "six years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 21]}, {"entity": "14 - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 37]}, {"entity": "Jiang Beiwen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 56]}, {"entity": "Ruangang village", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "His parents rely on selling rice in Guangzhou to support their child 's education .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They live a very hard life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Little Beiwen has not seen them once in the past six years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beiwen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 13]}, {"entity": "the past six years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Oh , I see so many children here who can turn for comfort in their parents ' arms !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , I envy them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , I also , want to be able to turn to comfort in my parents ' arms .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was at school the time I missed my mother the most .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh huh .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We had a market !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Oh , every day , there were parents who bought things for their oh , sons and daughters .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I also wish that my parents could buy me things .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I envied them very much .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That was when I missed my mother the most .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is Jiang Beiwen 's favorite photo .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jiang Beiwen 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was taken with his father six years ago , before he sent him to live with his maternal grandfather .", "entity": [{"entity": "six years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was only eight years old at that time .", "entity": [{"entity": "eight years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The only connection that little Beiwen has with his parents now is to talk on the phone with them once a week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beiwen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In his opinion , affection among family members is something unreachable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How often can your mother call you ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh , once a week !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What do you talk about ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will talk about my studies and life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My schoolwork was not quite good when I first came !", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [40, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My mother scolded me in the beginning when my schoolwork was poor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She said that I was losing honor for not doing well at school !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then I cried and after that , my mother cried , too .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since they move from place to place in the city to work all year round , parents of left - behind children have little communication with their children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While for temporary custodians , they are only limited to providing superficial care , such as making sure the children have food and stay warm , but can not fulfill the responsibility of educating the children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The survey found that 36.7 percent of the children had never been to their parents ' workplace .", "entity": [{"entity": "36.7 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [22, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "8.2 percent of the parents almost never contacted their children .", "entity": [{"entity": "8.2 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "21.4 percent of the parents contacted their children less than once a month .", "entity": [{"entity": "21.4 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since their parents are absent , how can these children communicate and exchange with their parents ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our study found that um , um , the principal means of contact between the left - behind children and their parents was through the telephone .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , contrary to our belief that they could talk on the phone for a long time when they called , approximately 50 percent of the left - behind children we surveyed talked on the phone with their parents for three minutes or so .", "entity": [{"entity": "approximately 50 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [102, 126]}, {"entity": "three minutes", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [212, 225]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What could they talk about in three minutes ?", "entity": [{"entity": "three minutes", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [30, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it is hard to say anything meaningful in three minutes .", "entity": [{"entity": "three minutes", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [49, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , we also studied what these children talked to their parents about in these three - minute telephone conversations .", "entity": [{"entity": "three - minute", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [87, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What did the parents who worked in the city talk about with their children ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What touched us very deeply was that 70 percent of the content of the children 's conversations with their parents was to ask about their safety and not other things , such as how much they had earned .", "entity": [{"entity": "70 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [37, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for the content of the parents ' conversations with their children , first , it was school .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [72, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Whether they were good and how their schoolwork was .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Second , it was whether they obeyed their custodians and what they ate and things like that .", "entity": [{"entity": "Second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh , as for safety matters , in fact , they could not have any emotional exchange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We know that sometimes when we talk on the phone , even a pause is a need for emotional exchange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the parents may not have realized this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , the child has stopped talking .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He stops talking because he needs to pause to consider how to say what is in his mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The parents may not have realized this point , so they hang up the phone immediately .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , for three minutes , why was it only for three minutes ?", "entity": [{"entity": "three minutes", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [16, 29]}, {"entity": "three minutes", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [52, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In many cases , it was because they worried about the charge .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", many left - behind children told us that they especially wanted to call their parents on the phone .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , um , they considered that um , one thing , sometimes they did not have a telephone at home .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [41, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was very difficult for children to borrow the phone from their neighbors .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Second , um , they considered that they needed money to make a phone call .", "entity": [{"entity": "Second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some children told me , \" I secretly called my parents when my custodians were not home . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The children have a great need for this type of telephone exchange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do the left - behind children understand why their parents work in the city ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , um , we conducted a survey on this question .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We were very surprised to find that 40 percent of the left - behind children had no idea what jobs their parents held away from home .", "entity": [{"entity": "40 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [36, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How could that be possible ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We interviewed some left - behind children , their custodians , and the people who work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why would n't the children know what they did ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First , we can tell from the content of the three - minute telephone conversations we mentioned earlier that children are particularly concerned about the safety of the parents who work in the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "three - minute", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [44, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , a lot of the work that the parents engaged in is dangerous work , including coalmines , construction , and some others , many of them are dangerous jobs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus , I believe the parents of these left - behind children also choose not to take the initiative and tell them the nature of their job .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do they do that ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is because they are afraid that their children will worry .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Second , , parents , especially fathers , who work in the city have a particularly lofty image in the children 's mind .", "entity": [{"entity": "Second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Maybe they do not want their children to know about the nature of their job or tell them what they do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They , do not want to destroy the lofty image of themselves in the child 's mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At noon , the maternal grandmother and maternal grandfather went to work in the field and did not come home .", "entity": [{"entity": "noon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [3, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jiang Beiwen has to make lunch for himself .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jiang Beiwen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This happens to him very often .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He could look after himself since he was nine .", "entity": [{"entity": "nine", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [41, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What work are you going to do today , other than cooking ?", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh , I will do the dishes after I finish eating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If it is Sunday when I am free , I will , also do some farm work .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [9, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What kind of work ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh , I will hoe the field , uh , when we are in a hurry to till the land for growing crops , I will help do some work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you still remember your mother 's cooking ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh huh , I do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was especially tasty .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , the most I want to know is , my parents ' health .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do you want to know about that ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is because I care about my parents very much .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think about their work because I know that they work in the city because of me , so I care about them a lot .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They will be worn out from working in the city , working in the city to make money .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe it is also because of me , so I care about their health a lot .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because of you , why is it because of you ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because if they did n't have me , I think they uh , would be a lot more , relaxed when they worked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then , are these children willing to live with their parents ? Or go to the city with them ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In regard to this , first , , children all want their parents to come back to live with them .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [20, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , 51 percent of the children we surveyed were unwilling to go to the city with their parents , go to the city , to live in the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "51 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [10, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , they all wanted their parents to come back , but half of the children did not want to go to the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We also asked them why they did not want to go to the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This was also very surprising to us .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They said that the city is another world and they were especially worried .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were afraid that once they go to the city , they will not be able to assimilate into the schools and things like that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Second , they realized that it is already a very difficult task for their parents to work in the city .", "entity": [{"entity": "Second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their parents have to send money home , among other things .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If they go live with them , they will add more burdens to their parents .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we are in the city every day , live in the city every day , we may know that oh , city life is like this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for children from rural areas and people from rural areas who work in the city , they are not familiar with this world and they have a type of fear .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for parents , are they more willing to bring their children with them or leave them at home ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe when parents make this decision , their main consideration is not willing or unwilling .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All parents , I can say the majority of the parents , definitely want to live with their children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , with the reality that they have to face , I believe that they can not solve this problem .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , we know what the reality is .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "First , their families are rather poor to begin with .", "entity": [{"entity": "First", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Only the lower - middle class will leave the rural areas and work in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They have to make money to support the family .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They will need a huge sum of money in order to bring their children to the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nonetheless , I believe there are also many other reasons .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They also have to consider whether their children can go to school in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They have to find a place to live .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All these are problems that they need to resolve .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The problems they face are too many .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the children go to the city , the expenses will be very high .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since circumstances do not permit , they can not bring their children with them , according to their will or their psychological need .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many parents are unable to bring their children with them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What would you tell your parents if you could see them now ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I want to tell them that I miss them very much .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Judging from the surface , is there any obvious difference between the character of these left - behind children and non-left - behind children ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is hard to tell from the surface .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For these children , it depends on how long their parents have been working in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For example , some have just gone for a year , while others have gone for 10 years already .", "entity": [{"entity": "a year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 44]}, {"entity": "10 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [74, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this case , um , generally speaking , uh , we did not conduct any psychological testing or comparison in this psychological aspect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , many schools and custodians reported that many left - behind children had become very withdrawn .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They had very strange um , um , temperaments .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They did not like to speak .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was , a child who was in the first year of junior high school .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , um , he told us himself that he particularly , um , um , misses his father .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was very good at school .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , one time we visited him , his um , family told us that he was second in his class in his examination .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [72, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After that , he became extremely , extremely , annoyed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , um , um , his language and other things became very strange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , um , we also asked his um , um , grandparents who had custody of him .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They said that when his father was home , he would always encourage him and um , exchange with him .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , of course , it was not necessarily because his parents worked in the city .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , for some left - behind children , their parents working in the city has caused some psychological abnormalities and unusual development .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This situation indeed exists .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After all , these are families whose love is inadequate and incomplete .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe love is especially important .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Children need love from the time they are small .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have to understand our Chinese saying , \" The child is father to the man . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [26, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What it says is that the character that children form at a very young age will affect their entire life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Only children who are loved and who realize the importance of love since they are young will be able to love other people in the future .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , for this type , um , um , um , this group of left - behind children , psychologically , they do not have family love .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um , , if the parents work in the city , these children perhaps will not receive timely attention when they encounter many difficulties at home .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps the neighbors around are all facing different realities and can not offer them timely love .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Under this situation , I believe , I am not sure , um , I am unwilling to imagine what mentality and character these children will develop when they grow up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will they believe there is love in society or not ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will they think that love is important in society or not , because they have never experienced it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They have never completely experienced it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus , if such a large group in society does not realize that love should be , um , given or received in society , I think this is , something that I do not want to imagine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Despite the guarantee in food , clothing , and school that left - behind children get because their parents work in the city to make money , they do not have the psychological and physiological satisfaction that they require .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to the survey , more than half of the left - behind children were dissatisfied with their current life .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "58 percent of the left - behind children believed that they were unhappy .", "entity": [{"entity": "58 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [0, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are the parents worried about leaving their children at home by themselves ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do they understand the living conditions of their children at home ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They thought that this was a reality that they could not um , um , face .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were condemned to this reality .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No doubt , I think some , um , parents have not had such profound consideration .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do n't they ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe people are all the same .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If they face such an urgent need for a livelihood , their first consideration will be the need for a livelihood .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [58, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They can not consider the deeper issue of children 's safety and psychology when their livelihood has not been solved , satisfied , and guaranteed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For example , there were two sisters who lived in a cave dwelling in Shaanxi province .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [25, 28]}, {"entity": "Shaanxi province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many people whom we interviewed lived in cave dwellings .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Once there was a flood .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ", these sisters stayed in the cave dwelling to look after the home !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This happened in the rural area .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These two children were looking after the home .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [6, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their uncle saved them when the flood was almost past their bellies .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their father called later to see if they were fine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And joining us now in Los Angeles Arianna Huffington the syndicated columnist and founder of the blog huffington post dot com .", "entity": [{"entity": "Los Angeles", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 33]}, {"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "in Minneapolis Lucy Dalglish executive director of the Reporters ' Committee for Freedom of the Press .", "entity": [{"entity": "Minneapolis", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 14]}, {"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 28]}, {"entity": "the Reporters ' Committee for Freedom of the Press", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [51, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Frank Sesno has the New York Times belatedly to be sure fought and finally made an honest accounting of its role of Judy Miller 's role and the tensions that she created in the newsroom /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Frank Sesno", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "the New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 34]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [116, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well an honest accounting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "yeah maybe .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but not a full accounting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know and if the whole bottom line of this mess is that the public has the right to know and that that 's what this is all about the public still does n't know a lot of things .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Why did it wait until she sat in jail for all that time before she actually took up on it /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you know she 's referred to in the Times ' own account as Miss Run Amuck .", "entity": [{"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 40]}, {"entity": "Miss Run Amuck", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She was pulled off of certain stories on Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What are her motives and bottom lines to the secrecy of this whole thing /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Arianna Huffington the Times piece a lengthy piece acknowledges that Judy Miller was a controversial figure in the newsroom whose own WMD reporting was wrong and that while she claims to have pushed for this uh story on Valerie Plame two years ago Jill Abrahamson now the paper 's managing editor says No way .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 28]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 80]}, {"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [220, 233]}, {"entity": "two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [234, 247]}, {"entity": "Jill Abrahamson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [248, 263]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That did n't happen .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In other words there 's a dispute in the accounts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pretty candid stuff for a newspaper to publish about itself would n't you say /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well as Frank said there are many unanswered questions .", "entity": [{"entity": "Frank", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And there are many very devastating eh comments and conclusions about Judy Miller as a journalist .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't think the Times had any choice though Howie . Because remember as a press reporter back on July twenty - seventh the turmoil in the newsroom has been going on for months about Judy Miller and the way the paper has decided to cover the story and the way they decided to present her as a martyr for the first amendment .", "entity": [{"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 24]}, {"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "July twenty - seventh", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [100, 121]}, {"entity": "months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [172, 178]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [185, 196]}, {"entity": "the first amendment", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [306, 325]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the main unanswered question here is why did Arthur Sulzberger the newspaper 's publisher allow Judy Miller to hijack the reporting of that story and the editorial policy on that story .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arthur Sulzberger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 66]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [100, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the similarities for the Jayson Blair case .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jayson Blair", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Remember after the Jayson Blair scandal broke we had a seven thousand word story that did not give a full account of what happened . Especially about why is a major institution like the Times ignoring so many red flags .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jayson Blair", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 31]}, {"entity": "seven thousand word", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 74]}, {"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [186, 191]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Alright .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the story one of things that we learn is that Bill Keller took Judy Miller off her WMD beat as one of his first personnel decisions when he took eh the reins as editor .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 16]}, {"entity": "Bill Keller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 60]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [66, 77]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [98, 101]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [109, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well uh I agree there are some unanswered questions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And Lucy Dalglish here 's the thing that jumped out at me in the story .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Judy Miller acknowledges that at Louis Libby 's request this is the Dick Cheney aide she agreed to refer to him and in stories not as a senior administration official but as a former Hill aide because he had once worked on Capitol Hill .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Louis Libby 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 47]}, {"entity": "Dick Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 79]}, {"entity": "Hill", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [183, 187]}, {"entity": "Capitol Hill", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [223, 235]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you have a problem with that sort of thing /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I thought that was a little bit misleading .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I thought it was odd .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean her justification was that well he had been a former Hill staffer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hill", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [60, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um but that was a strange request .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I think the agreement was strange .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'll agree with you on that .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "One can understand the emotions uh that were unleashed here .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and yet the editors discouraged stories on the CIA leak investigation and one time killed a piece written by a reporter about Scooter Libby .", "entity": [{"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [47, 50]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 77]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [126, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Was that an abdication of journalistic responsibility /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Maybe yeah maybe .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean what it really shows Howie I think is just how difficult it is for news organizations to report on themselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know news organizations demand total transparency whether you 're General Motors or United States government .", "entity": [{"entity": "General Motors", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [70, 84]}, {"entity": "United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We want access .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We want explanation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In this case and the Times makes it very plain in their story today they really suffered .", "entity": [{"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were behind on virtually every major aspect of the story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even when she went to jail /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even when she went to jail and w- .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When she won release from jail .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah at the point that she came out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And the question and this is a very serious question it 's not answered in the article .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Were editorial higher - ups and were the corporate lawyers at the New York Times in some way leaning on suppressing and distorting the coverage from the news uh section /?", "entity": [{"entity": "the New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [62, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Arianna Huffington uh in this lengthy piece this morning uh uh Judy Miller is quoted excuse me as saying that there was another source beside Scooter Libby that she dealt with on the Valerie Plame situation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "this morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [44, 56]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [63, 74]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [142, 155]}, {"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [183, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She does n't recall who that source was looking at her notes and seeing the uh notation Valerie Flame .", "entity": [{"entity": "Valerie Flame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [88, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She got the name wrong .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you buy this notion that she does n't recall who this other source was /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No of course not Howie .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact I think this is the major unanswered question .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We do n't know who eh her source was when it comes to revealing the identity of Valerie Plame .", "entity": [{"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [80, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And to say that she does not recall is really as convincing as having Woodward and Bernstein saying that they do not recall who Deep Throat was .", "entity": [{"entity": "Woodward", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 78]}, {"entity": "Bernstein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 92]}, {"entity": "Deep Throat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [128, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After all these notes were just a few weeks old when um the Valerie Plame Bob Novak column appeared and when the whole Washington and the whole journalistic community was talking about it .", "entity": [{"entity": "just a few weeks old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 47]}, {"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 73]}, {"entity": "Bob Novak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [74, 83]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know I do n't /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Incidentally there was some questions uh that Judy Miller would not answer to her colleagues .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and she would n't share her notes with them although they 've been turned over to the special prosecutor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lucy Dalglish the big news for me was Miller recounting what her lawyer Floyd Abrams had said to her about a conversation that he had with Joe Tate who was Scooter Libby 's lawyer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 44]}, {"entity": "Floyd Abrams", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 84]}, {"entity": "Joe Tate", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [139, 147]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [156, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh says um Floyd Abrams according to Miller 's account when I would n't give him Tate an assurance that you would exonerate Libby he said do n't go there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Floyd Abrams", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 23]}, {"entity": "Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 43]}, {"entity": "Tate", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 85]}, {"entity": "Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [124, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now Tate by the way tells the Times that that account is false and outrageous .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tate", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Does this help justify eh Judy Miller 's otherwise mysterious decision to go to jail and not accept the waiver of confidentiality that Scooter Libby offered and sit in jail for eighty - five days /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 40]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [135, 148]}, {"entity": "eighty - five days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [177, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "N- you n- .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you know I 've been talking to Judy off and on about this case for the last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 35]}, {"entity": "the last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [67, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This was a very difficult decision .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you know what this all comes down to is you keep your promises when you make a promise to a confidential source .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'll recall six or eight months ago Howie I was on the show and we were talking about you know did Russert and Kessler and all the rest of those guys did they break some trust by agreeing to testify and observing the waiver /?", "entity": [{"entity": "six or eight months ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 38]}, {"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 44]}, {"entity": "Russert", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [102, 109]}, {"entity": "Kessler", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [114, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What I think this situation and the turmoil that is obviously going on at the Times right now points out is the fact that we have a major problem in this country .", "entity": [{"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's that reporters believe they need to keep their promises to their sources .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Reporters will try to do whatever they can as long as the law allows them to protect those sources .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But these days um with the state of our law the fact that we do not have a federal shield law we have prosecutors and civil litigants going in there and interfering with the day to day operation of our newsrooms .", "entity": [{"entity": "these days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we just can tolerate this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 're trying to /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think Lucy 's on to something here if I can just say Howie .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 12]}, {"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [55, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think this is very important because this is an ugly case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And even people close to Judith Miller say this is not the one you 'd really like to go to the mat on .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judith Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 38]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'd love to have a clear whistle blower case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'd love to have a Pentagon papers case .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pentagon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 'd love to have something where the well - being and the sanctity of the Republic you know hangs in the balance .", "entity": [{"entity": "Republic", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [77, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She did n't even report on this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it does point out a very serious issue .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that is the whole notion of the use of and abuse of confidential sources the protections that reporters do or do n't have and the propensity of uh the United States government to have more secrecy not less .", "entity": [{"entity": "United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [155, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 've got to figure this out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well just to clarify uh she did ultimately uh testify about her confidential source .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The whole issue was how voluntary was the waiver of her promise to Scooter Libby offered and why was she able to accept after being in jail as opposed to before being in jail .", "entity": [{"entity": "Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well exactly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you know what Howie . .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's really time for Lucy and other Judy Miller defenders to update her talking points because what Lucy just said just simply does not wash .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 26]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "Lucy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [101, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The truth is that as Howie said she did testify .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [21, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The truth is that it 's very clear from the stories today that she could 've asked uh Scooter Libby to call her so that she could hear the timber of his voice earlier .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [52, 57]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [86, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All of that could have happened .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It did not happen because clearly Judy Miller is protecting another source that she still has not revealed to the American public .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 45]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [114, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the New York Times is .", "entity": [{"entity": "the New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lucy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ".", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let me get a response from Lucy Dalglish .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it 's very obvious from what Judy wrote today she is protecting somebody else .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And one of the reasons that this negotiation took so long is that not only was she negotiating what she was going to say about Scooter Libby but you got to keep in mind I 'm a lawyer there were lawyers involved in this .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "Scooter Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [127, 140]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They had to negotiate with Patrick Fitzgerald what he would not talk about .", "entity": [{"entity": "Patrick Fitzgerald", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They also had to negotiate whether or not there would be any type of um uh uh obstruction charges connected with contacting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Once you invoke the wrath or the extreme interest of a federal prosecutor you have to be very very careful .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You do n't mess with the Feds .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's very clear in her story that she decided finally to testify because she got tired of jail because she was threatened with criminal contempt charges because she wanted to go out and now she 's saying admitting finally write a book .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All these things are there in black and white .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and to continue to portray her as a martyr is not going to work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And on that point Arianna on that point she says sh- /-", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Excuse me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Judy Miller says she 's taking some time off from the paper .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She wants to write a book .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She would n't share her notes with her colleagues who were writing the story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you think she 'll ever come back /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You think she 's saving it for the book /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well it 's very clear that she would not be welcome in the newsroom .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it 's very clear eh as I reported again that when Bill Keller took her off her WMD beat they were all hoping she would resign .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Keller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Instead she threw a fit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but she stayed on .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is not a journalism one oh one course the way she handled both the WMD reporting and Plame Gate .", "entity": [{"entity": "one oh one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [25, 35]}, {"entity": "Plame Gate", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [90, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Frank Sesno please comment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jump in .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Howie I 'll tell you what .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is a gigantic shot across the bow of every manager in the news business and every editor and every executive producer anywhere because you got to have some uh control some connection with your correspondants and your reporters .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You got to know who they 're talking to at some level anyway because you know what /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's about trust with the public .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it 's about you know ending up in jail or in court .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "their story says that Bill Keller and Arthur Sulzberger did not press Judy Miller about her conversations with Libby or ask to see her notes while they were defending her .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Keller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 33]}, {"entity": "Arthur Sulzberger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 55]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 81]}, {"entity": "Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [111, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ask to see her .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And by the way we invited the New York Times to have an editor appear on this program .", "entity": [{"entity": "the New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The paper declined .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When we come back media speculation run amuck over possible indictments at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania and the President 's scripted session with troops in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pennsylvania", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [91, 103]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Stay with us .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome back to Reliable Sources .", "entity": [{"entity": "Reliable Sources", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [16, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As the CIA leak investigation continued this week media folks did plenty of speculating with no evidence about the possible indictment of a certain top White House official who testified before the grand jury for the fourth time on Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [7, 10]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 49]}, {"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [152, 163]}, {"entity": "fourth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [217, 223]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [232, 238]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Karl Rove his closest aide the number two man in the White House the man that has been called Bush 's brain .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "number two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [31, 41]}, {"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [49, 64]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If he 's indicted and has to go it undermines the key source of this President 's public support his character .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If Rove gets indicted that could bring down the Bush administration I think .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My understanding from talking to somebody quite close to this investigation is that they think there are going to be indictments .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and possibly Karl Rove could be among them .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lucy Dalglish if Karl Rove is indicted , if Karl Rove is indicted , what if he 's not indicted /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 26]}, {"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is n't this the worst kind of journalistic speculation /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know I think it 's always dangerous to speculate whether or not you 're really besmirching someone 's reputation . Although I 'm not sure you can do that with Karl Rove .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [163, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it uh is very very you know eh irre- /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I would prefer that people keep an eye on you know watching him testify and going in and out of the courthouse .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But uh will it bring down the administration /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't know .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah eh I do n't know .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well nobody knows .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's the point .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Arianna Huffington I used to cover the justice department .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Not everybody who 's under investigation winds up getting indicted .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah but you certainly and you 're uh on a blog so maybe it 's a different standard have speculated about Rove 's fate as well .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [104, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well not just Rove though .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "what we have speculated is that it might be a much more tangled web that Fitzgerald is after the whole Iraq White House group the group that uh in Cheney 's office with Libby and Rove and Mary Matalin and Condoleezza Rice and a lot of administration officials basically sold um a war to the American public based on lies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fitzgerald", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [73, 83]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 107]}, {"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [108, 119]}, {"entity": "Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [147, 153]}, {"entity": "Libby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [169, 174]}, {"entity": "Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [179, 183]}, {"entity": "Mary Matalin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [188, 200]}, {"entity": "Condoleezza Rice", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [205, 221]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [291, 299]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean that is really the web .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it seems and we find out today also from uh um the reporting on the Miller story , that uh Fitzgerald is after Cheney even in some of the questioning eh of Miller .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 34]}, {"entity": "Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 78]}, {"entity": "Fitzgerald", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [95, 105]}, {"entity": "Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 121]}, {"entity": "Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [160, 166]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think those were fairly routine questions about .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you have Judy Miller there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you ask about Cheney . .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was being thorough .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think we 're overthinking this whole thing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Karl Rove and this speculation business you know .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Frank Sesno .", "entity": [{"entity": "Frank Sesno .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pat Fitzgerald .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pat Fitzgerald .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's very easy to sit here and say oh we should never speculate in journalism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's irresponsible journalism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's really how you speculate not that you speculate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact of the matter is that Karl Rove has been to the grand jury four times .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 40]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [68, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people in Washington and believe me they 're not all journalists who are speculating what if the guy gets indicted .", "entity": [{"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It would be irresponsible I think for the media not to reflect what the discussion is here in town .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And there are plenty of Republicans mostly Republicans who are worried about this .", "entity": [{"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [24, 35]}, {"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Alright I want to turn now to uh President Bush 's uh meeting uh uh photo op some called it with US troops in Iraq whether it was staged how shocking that would be .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 47]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 99]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [110, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's take a look at the actual footage .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And in your interactions with the Iraqi civilians in Tikrit Saddam 's hometown how are they reacting to this political process /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [34, 39]}, {"entity": "Tikrit", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 59]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sir in the north central area of Iraq voter registration has increased seventeen percent .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 37]}, {"entity": "seventeen percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [71, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Can you give us a sense for the reception of the people there in Tikrit /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Tikrit", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sir in north central Iraq voter regis- /-", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you stunned /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shocked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I ca n't believe it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "they rehearsed it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They rehearsed it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah you know something /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh I remember a long time ago Michael Deaver the ultimate image meister for Ronald Reagan said my job is to light the President well and for everything I do to put the President in a good light .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Deaver", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 44]}, {"entity": "Ronald Reagan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [76, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now look first of all this is uncomfortable to see .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [9, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and what the problem this now creates for the White House is {is} it plays into the credibility issue that the President has that everything now is becoming a photo op and a rehearsed event in order to rescue what are tumbling numbers on his performance on public support of Iraq the whole bit .", "entity": [{"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 57]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [275, 279]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the fact that anybody would think that you would do something like this a remote .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean anybody in television will tell you that 's complicated business .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You have satellite delay .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You have a half a dozen people sitting there .", "entity": [{"entity": "a half a dozen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [9, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Who 's going to speak when .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You do n't want awkward silences .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 're going to walk through it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so that it happened does n't surprise me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That it hurts the President yeah that 's inevitable too .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Arianna Huffington does the staging here surprise you at all /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well it 's not the question of surpising me Howie .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's the fact that we are talking about war .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is not just any photo opportunity .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course that 's part and parcel of the presidency .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we 're talking about a war in which almost two thousand young Americans have died .", "entity": [{"entity": "almost two thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [40, 59]}, {"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [66, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we are also using soldiers as props .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes it is shocking .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I think Keith Olbermann did a phenomenal job at exposing this on MSNBC .", "entity": [{"entity": "Keith Olbermann", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 27]}, {"entity": "MSNBC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think more and more journalists are actually taking a hard look at what this administration is doing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we 'll have to leave it there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last word .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Arianna Huffington Lucy Dalglish in Minneapolis Frank Sesno thanks so very much for joining us .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Lucy Dalglish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 32]}, {"entity": "Minneapolis", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 47]}, {"entity": "Frank Sesno", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Coming up , we launch our new segment Talk Back to the Media .", "entity": [{"entity": "Talk Back to the Media", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [38, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Clinton 's former lawyer Lanny Davis takes on Sixty Minutes and ex-FBI director Louis Freeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 17]}, {"entity": "Lanny Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 46]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 69]}, {"entity": "ex-FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 80]}, {"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [90, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And still to come New York Times columnist Tom Friedman .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 32]}, {"entity": "Tom Friedman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In our new Talk Back to the Media segment someone who believes he or she 's been treated unfairly by the press gets the chance to sound off and give their side of the controversy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Talk Back to the Media", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [11, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last Sunday Mike Wallace sat down with Louis Freeh who 's peddling a memoir on Sixty Minutes .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Mike Wallace", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 24]}, {"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [79, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and the former FBI director unloaded on the President who appointed him Bill Clinton .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 18]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Among his criticisms the former president 's handling of the nineteen ninety - six Khobar Towers terrorist bombing that killed nineteen US marines in Saudi Arabia .", "entity": [{"entity": "nineteen ninety - six", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [61, 82]}, {"entity": "Khobar Towers", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [83, 96]}, {"entity": "nineteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [127, 135]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 138]}, {"entity": "Saudi Arabia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 162]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was very disappointed that the political leadership of the United States uh would tell the families of these nineteen heroes that we were going to leave no stone unturned and find the people who killed them .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 74]}, {"entity": "nineteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [111, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "to give that order to the director because that 's the order that I got and then to do nothing to assist and facilitate that investigation in fact to undermine it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Clinton people were furious at the way Sixty Minutes hailed the segment .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and here to talk back is former Clinton White House attorney Lanny Davis .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 39]}, {"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 51]}, {"entity": "Lanny Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's deal with the substance first .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [31, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Louis Freeh says that when Clinton met with Crown Prince Abdullah in nineteen ninety - eight , he did n't press for FBI access to suspects in the Khobar Towers bombing and he hit up the prince for a contribution to his presidential library .", "entity": [{"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 34]}, {"entity": "Crown Prince Abdullah", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 65]}, {"entity": "nineteen ninety - eight", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 92]}, {"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 119]}, {"entity": "Khobar Towers", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [146, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well not only is that false and President Clinton has said so but everybody who attended the meeting not including Louis Freeh says it 's false .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [42, 49]}, {"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And my problem with Sixty Minutes is that they never called anybody at the meeting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Until Friday afternoon we did n't even know the charge was being made .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [6, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And even then they were unwilling to put somebody on the air to contradict Mister Freeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [82, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sixty Minutes says Bill Clinton was offered a chance to come on and give his rebuttal .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What 's wrong with that /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well first of all it 's absolutely amazing that Sixty Minutes thinks it 's okay to air a false and malicious statement .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [5, 10]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [48, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is a terrible charge that an FBI investigation was thwarted because President Clinton wanted to receive money for his library .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [34, 37]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The charge was false .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and the only way that that can be countered is a former president of the United States /?", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What about anybody at the meeting who was willing to be on /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What about them doing reporting themselves before they air a false and demonstrably false charge /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's my problem .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What about Sandy Berger the former national security advisor under President Clinton /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Sandy Berger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 23]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [77, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was at the meeting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was in the room .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Did you offer him for an on - camera interview /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well on Friday afternoon .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [8, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You were n't there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was not there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 're good on television .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but you were n't there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh I talked to Sandy Berger .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sandy Berger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We issued a statement from Mister Berger .", "entity": [{"entity": "Berger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but this was Friday afternoon when we first learned about it with Sunday broadcast .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [13, 29]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [38, 43]}, {"entity": "Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [66, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why did n't Sixty Minutes invite Mister Berger or other people at the meeting before Friday afternoon /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 25]}, {"entity": "Berger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 46]}, {"entity": "Friday afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [85, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why did it take us to get Sixty Minutes to do basic reporting to verify facts /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's not enough to have Louis Freeh say something is so based on an anonymous source .", "entity": [{"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's poor journalism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On that point let me read a statement from a Sixty Minutes spokesman .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And this involves uh their saying that they contacted Clinton 's office back in August with a detailed list of charges and then quote in subsequent phone calls the President 's people said he did not want to be interviewed .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 61]}, {"entity": "August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [80, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They gave no +substantive response to any of the allegations until Lanny Davis launched his PR campaign on the Thursday before the broadcast and offered himself as the person from the camp who would merely disparage and attack Freeh rather than deal with his allegations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lanny Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 78]}, {"entity": "the Thursday before the broadcast", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [107, 140]}, {"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [227, 232]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Denials from President Clinton and Sandy Berger that did deal with Freeh 's allegations were included in the Sixty Minutes report .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 30]}, {"entity": "Sandy Berger", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 47]}, {"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 72]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [109, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well first of all it 's false to say that I was asking to disparage Freeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was asking to talk about facts that Freeh was saying that were not true .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You do n't mind disparaging Freeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "my observation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "no in fact I disparage any man who as FBI director has a personal pique rather than doing his job .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's disparaging .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Secondly it is absolutely a misrepresentation that they told us before just the week before .", "entity": [{"entity": "Secondly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "just the week before", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [71, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When Mister Carson the representative spoke to Mister Wallace Mister Wallace agreed that they had never verified what Mister uh Freeh had said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Carson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 18]}, {"entity": "Wallace", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 61]}, {"entity": "Wallace", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 76]}, {"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [128, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They never talked to Mister Freeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and in fact it was n't until that Friday that we learned the substance of Mister Freeh 's charges .", "entity": [{"entity": "that Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 40]}, {"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So Sixty Minutes I think has just said something that is false .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [3, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When did the Clinton team find out that Sixty Minutes was going to report that Louis Freeh with his new book was going to have a specific allegation about Clinton 's handling of the Khobar Towers investigation and the business about the presidential library solicitation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 20]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 53]}, {"entity": "Louis Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [79, 90]}, {"entity": "Khobar Towers", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [182, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When somebody named Howard Kurtz wrote a story in the Washington Post on Friday morning is the first time that the Clinton forces learned about that false and demonstrably false charge that good reporting by calling people who were at the meeting could have done would have verified that Mister Freeh made a false charge .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howard Kurtz", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 32]}, {"entity": "the Washington Post", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 69]}, {"entity": "Friday morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [73, 87]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [95, 100]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 122]}, {"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [295, 300]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And even since that interview Mister Freeh has backed off and has not told people who his source is .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and he has n't even insisted that it was true .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Hold on .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sixty Minutes spokesman Kevin Tedesco said in the statement I just referred to that the Clinton office was contacted in August with a detailed list of charges .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Kevin Tedesco", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [24, 37]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [88, 95]}, {"entity": "August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [120, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's false .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you saying that 's false /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were never told . .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "or at least I 'm now basing this on what Mister Carson has told me .", "entity": [{"entity": "Carson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jay Carson is the spokesman for former president Bill Clinton .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jay Carson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jay Carson is the spokesperson for President Clinton was not informed about the specific charge about the Khobar Towers which happens to be not true .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jay Carson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [45, 52]}, {"entity": "the Khobar Towers", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [102, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Clinton at that uh meeting did press the uh Crown Prince to cooperate with the FBI .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 17]}, {"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [89, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so what Mister Freeh said was false .", "entity": [{"entity": "Freeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That was not understood by the Clinton people until it was read in the Washington Post in the story that you wrote because Sixty Minutes put a press release out .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 38]}, {"entity": "the Washington Post", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [67, 86]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [123, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh now look Lanny Davis Sixty Minutes gave Bill Clinton one hour last year to push his own ten million dollar autobiography .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lanny Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 23]}, {"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 37]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 55]}, {"entity": "one hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [56, 64]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 74]}, {"entity": "ten million dollar", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [91, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He criticized people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He criticized Ken Starr .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ken Starr", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They did n't have Ken Starr on to rebut .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ken Starr", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation uh who ca n't stand Clinton clearly writes a book gets one segment for his book .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Federal Bureau of Investigation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 62]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 90]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [118, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you cry foul .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nobody was complaining about when Bill Clinton was getting all this airtime on CBS .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 46]}, {"entity": "CBS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [79, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Look .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Look this is a program about good journalism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's ask a Sixty Minutes uh journalist to say do you have an obligation to verify a charge made by the former FBI director as whether it 's true or not .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixty Minutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 26]}, {"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [112, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it good enough to air it just because he says it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Good reporters would hear that charge and say that is an extremely serious charge to be levelled against former president Clinton .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [122, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's see whether it 's true and start making phone calls .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Alright Lanny Davis thanks very much for coming on to Talk Back to the Media this morning .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lanny Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 19]}, {"entity": "Talk Back to the Media", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [54, 76]}, {"entity": "this morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [77, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We appreciate it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "After an update on the hour 's top stories from Atlanta .", "entity": [{"entity": "hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [23, 27]}, {"entity": "Atlanta", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hello I 'm at the CNN center in Atlanta .", "entity": [{"entity": "CNN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 21]}, {"entity": "Atlanta", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Associated Press says police arrested at least sixty - five people .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Associated Press", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "at least sixty - five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Look at this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "More of CNN 's Reliable Sources continues right now .", "entity": [{"entity": "CNN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 11]}, {"entity": "Reliable Sources", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [15, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome back to the second half of Reliable Sources .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [20, 26]}, {"entity": "Reliable Sources", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [35, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Now in reality the world that you do n't rule New York Times Washington Post made that part of a larger story on Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 60]}, {"entity": "Washington Post", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 76]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh nobody put it on the front page .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bad news judgement /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh I think so Howie .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm not here to make a news point though .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm really making a larger point which is about the war on terrorism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm a firm believer .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How we ever going to win this war /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're never going to win it by way of American intelligence finding this terrorist or that terrorist .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [39, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We get lucky every once in a while .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but there 's only {one?} way we win this war Howie is it takes a village .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [45, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It only happens when the Sunni Muslim world basically turns people in and when the Sunni Muslim world restrains their own .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunni Muslim", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [25, 37]}, {"entity": "Sunni Muslim", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what was so shocking to me about this story a Sunni Jihadi suicide bomber blows up a mosque number one on the first day of Ramadan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunni Jihadi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [50, 62]}, {"entity": "number one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [96, 106]}, {"entity": "the first day of Ramadan", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [110, 134]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What that tells you is that there 's no controlling moral authority today in the Sunni Muslim world .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 73]}, {"entity": "Sunni Muslim", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [81, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well what is the bigger story /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that is a huge story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it should have been a big story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why was n't /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it because of Iraq fatigue /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think it is yeah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Think it 's /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are all the editors and producers and new executives feeling another day another bombing ten killed twenty killed fifteen killed .", "entity": [{"entity": "another day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [61, 72]}, {"entity": "ten", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [89, 92]}, {"entity": "twenty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [100, 106]}, {"entity": "fifteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [114, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it does n't rise anymore to the top of the newscast or the front page /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah and I think that 's right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is Iraq fatigue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And there 's so much fatigue that we do n't sit back and say wait a minute .", "entity": [{"entity": "a minute", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [66, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "what happened today /?", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A Sunni Muslim fundamentalist went into a mosque on the first day of Ramadan their holiest day .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunni Muslim", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [2, 14]}, {"entity": "the first day of Ramadan", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [52, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and no one says boo .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "this is civilization that when we accidentally or deliberately I do n't know abused the Koran people rioted in Pakistan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Koran", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [88, 93]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yet their own houses of worship and holidays are being defiled .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I think it is a measure of how much we 've kind of lost been numbed by all of this that we do n't sit back and say wow wait a minute .", "entity": [{"entity": "a minute", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [128, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "that really crosses the line .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and we have to call them on it even if they do n't .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 're recently back from Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you write about driving in from Kuwait .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You were guarded by the US navy .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and yet it was kind of a harrowing experience .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why so /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um you know the south of Iraq which is where I was the area around .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the safe part .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right exactly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was in the safe district .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was guarded uh by the British Royal Marines actually because unfortunately they 've had now um uh roadside bombs down there not suicide bombs .", "entity": [{"entity": "the British Royal Marines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it 's part of the general continuing insecurity of Iraq that um I 'm afraid has plagued this story from the very beginning .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it 's been I 've always felt the Achille 's heel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Achille", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know my criticism of the Bush administration as you know we 've talked about this before is not that this war is not important .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe it is important much more important than I think the left has ever fully recognized .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it 's so much harder than the right has ever been willing to acknowledge .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And on that trip you put on body armor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "their rifles were out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um how does that affect your perception as a journalist /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You 're there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you 're being protected .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you must have been a little bit nervous of what the safety situation is in there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well I 'll tell you what 's really frustrating from a journalist 's point of view as one who have lived in Beirut for nearly five years covered that war .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beirut", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 113]}, {"entity": "nearly five years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [118, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When I worked in Lebanon you could go anywhere on that story .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lebanon", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You could cross lines .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Journalists worked for the most part until the very end with Terry Anderson the kidnappings targets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Terry Anderson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore by the end of the Lebanon story I thought the best journalists there knew more than the Lebanese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lebanon", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "Lebanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [98, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I always thought the best compliment you could get as a journalist is when you told the Lebanese something they did n't know because you were moving around so much .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lebanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What 's so frustrating about the Iraq story Howie no one has a bird 's eye view .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 37]}, {"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I care passionately about this story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm so interested in it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but because of the securtiy situation you ca n't move around with the freedom you want .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the brave reporters who are there every day do n't have that freedom of movement either .", "entity": [{"entity": "every day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And therefore it 's limited .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and in fact as you know the administration says because of the security situation and maybe because of some biases in the media .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's a lot of good things going on in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's a lot of progress being made we 're not seeing reported by the press .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you think that is a credible argument at this point in the mess there /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No because I do n't have a bird 's eye view .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I wish I could say .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I wish I could be so sure .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but General Casey does n't have a bird 's eye view .", "entity": [{"entity": "Casey", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And that 's why we get surprises in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh that 's why we had an election where eight million people suddenly turn out .", "entity": [{"entity": "eight million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [40, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and maybe you know we 're going to see more surpises in the coming future there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But because no one can move around with the freedom that you need to talk to everyone you do n't have that bird 's eye view .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And as a reporter as a columnist who really cares about this story I find that really frustra- /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I can not report it the way I 'd love to .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I 've been there five times .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but it 's episodic .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "It 's there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's never really putting your arms around the story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "pulling back the camera a bit in recent months you 'd have to say that the Iraq story has been overshadowed by Katrina by Rita by Tom DeLay by Harriet Miers by Valerie Plame and now by this Pakistan earthquake .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 46]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 79]}, {"entity": "Katrina", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [111, 118]}, {"entity": "Rita", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [122, 126]}, {"entity": "Tom DeLay", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [130, 139]}, {"entity": "Harriet Miers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [143, 156]}, {"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [160, 173]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [190, 198]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um inevitable with a war that drags on and on .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and these are all also important stories obviously .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but uh do you feel it 's getting the attention that it should /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No because to me this is the whole ballgame of the Bush administration .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Katrina and Rita they 'll come and go .", "entity": [{"entity": "Katrina", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Rita", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [12, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but at the end of the day the Bush administration made a very big claim um that it could go to Iraq um and produce a decent forward looking government there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 34]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If that happens then I think President Bush is going to have a very huge quiver you know in his uh legacy there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um if it does n't happen I think uh the administration will be seen as a complete and utter failure .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so everything rides on this not just for the administration though but for the American people .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [79, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These are huge stakes involved .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so I do n't think it 's gotten the attention it 's deserved .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And going back again to one of your Iraq collumns uh you observed the Iraqi military there which after all is supposed to be increasingly shouldering the burden of this conflict .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 40]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [70, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The slightly ragged quality left you feeling you write that if you pulled the US and British advisors out tomorrow the whole Iraqi navy would collapse .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 80]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [85, 92]}, {"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [106, 114]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [125, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's a pretty pessimistic assessment and clearly at odds with what the White House and the Defense Department say every day .", "entity": [{"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [70, 85]}, {"entity": "the Defense Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 112]}, {"entity": "every day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [117, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Not at odds though with what actually the military commanders have been saying which is that the number of really trained Iraqi units you know are far fewer than sometimes suggested by the administration .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [122, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So you 're saying there 's a gap between what real time military commanders on the ground are willing to tell you not necessarily on the record .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Are we calling them on that /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right I do n't think enough because there 's been a lot of happy talk around this Howie basically .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [82, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And a lot of numbers are thrown out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eighty thousand this week we 've got trained a hundred and twenty thousand next week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Eighty thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 25]}, {"entity": "a hundred and twenty thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [45, 74]}, {"entity": "next week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [75, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's what you learn when you go to Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Where you have an Iraqi commander who 's a real leader of soldiers okay you have a unit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [18, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And where you do n't have that commander you do n't have a unit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So the numbers the macro numbers do n't mean anything .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I went down to see the navy there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The navy of Iraq has a terrific commander .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so the people around him they 'll follow him into battle .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But you take that one guy out there 's no Iraqi navy .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 21]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [42, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and it 's true of units all over the country .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's really the key .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You say that you are angry uh that Bush has fought the war as though it would be easy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you particularly angry as somebody who supported the war and took heat from some of your liberal friends for doing so /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Absolutely because I believe this is important .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe that something very big is at stake .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're dealing with a Muslim Arab civilization right now that 's that 's in decline , that 's heading in the wrong direction in ways that are dangerous for them and I believe dangerous for the stability of the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "Muslim Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [22, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's something really important here at stake .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and what makes me so angry at the Bush administration is not that they did n't frame the stakes .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is important .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But they never never appreciated how difficult it was .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They never prepared the army or the American people for how difficult it was .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [36, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mentioned the uh devastating earthquake in Pakistan a region you 're familiar with .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um clearly it 's become a pretty big story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but for the first couple days I noticed it was n't that much of a television story .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first couple days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [8, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and the reason was no pictures no video .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No yes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um but also maybe there was there a little bit less coverage because it 's in a remote part of the world /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh Westerners are more interested in New Orleans than in Pakistan /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Westerners", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [3, 13]}, {"entity": "New Orleans", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think all of the above .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're so numbed also after Katrina and Rita .", "entity": [{"entity": "Katrina", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "Rita", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [40, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and now another earthquake .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's just become uh one natural disaster after another .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "to hear ten thousand twenty thousand forty thousand then it 's almost hard for a journalist to process .", "entity": [{"entity": "ten thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [8, 20]}, {"entity": "twenty thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 36]}, {"entity": "forty thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [37, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And it was remote .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and people are exhausted I think both viewers and reporters .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ahead have New York Times columnists been asked not to write about Judy Miller /?", "entity": [{"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 25]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "More of my interview with Tom Friedman next .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tom Friedman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Welcome back to Reliable Sources now a full hour each week here in our new time slot ten to eleven o'clock eastern .", "entity": [{"entity": "Reliable Sources", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [16, 32]}, {"entity": "a full hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "each week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [49, 58]}, {"entity": "ten to eleven o'clock eastern", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [85, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "More now of my conversation with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman about his book the new online charge to read him and Judy Miller .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 47]}, {"entity": "Tom Friedman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 70]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [124, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now your new book The World is Flat I 've got it here .", "entity": [{"entity": "The World is Flat", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [18, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh monster best seller more than a million copies better than any book you 've ever written before .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than a million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um you were recently profiled about this in Fortune magazine .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fortune", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and uh let 's just say that it did n't say you walked on water but it came close .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh but one of the criticisms /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It says that you 're the composer of the nation 's talking points which was news to me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh one of the things it said was that uh in your book and in your writing that CEOs play a very central role .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the suggestion was well CEOs love you , you 're asked to speak at all these corporate events , maybe because you give them a very large uh share of the narrative .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mhm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That a reasonable observation /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah it is a reasonable observation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And my reaction to that is look if I want to understand the underlying technology that is flattening the world who do I go to /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "do I go to I do n't know Central America /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Central America", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [25, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do I go to um uh the factory floor /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or do I go to the innovators and entrepeneurs who actually put all this together /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I make no apology for that at all .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um fact I would make a criticism of it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are n't enough people during the last few years who actually went out and talked to the innovators who are doing all of these things who are actually reshaping the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last few years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [35, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just the opposite .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We kind of had an Enron effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "Enron", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and Enron effect was all CEOs are guilty unless proven innocent , therefore who wants to talk to them /?", "entity": [{"entity": "Enron", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And therefore I would argue -- .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wait a second .", "entity": [{"entity": "a second", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [5, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "wait a second .", "entity": [{"entity": "a second", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [5, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Journalists uh subscribe to stereotypes because there are a few crooks at major corporations because you know they 're all bad guys /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah yeah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeah I would say .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh that 's a harsh uh assessment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I would say that there 's several things happened basically in the last three years .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last three years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I would call it a perfect storm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One was nine eleven .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "nine eleven", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [8, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That distracted us okay .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The other was the Enron effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "Enron", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know no one wanted to be sort of seen with CEOs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And number three was the dot com bust which made everyone think well all this globalization technology stuff is really over .", "entity": [{"entity": "number three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And as a result I would argue that really masked what is actually a fundemental inflection point the flattening of the world that we 're going from a vertical value creation model of command and control to a much more horizontal one of connect and collaborate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The argument of this book is that that shift is actually going to have as big an effect over time as Gutenberg and the printing press .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gutenberg", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [101, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I would argue a little bit that it got missed because of all these other distractions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it 's only had an effect on Tom Friedman 's career .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tom Friedman 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact you were the Playboy interview .", "entity": [{"entity": "Playboy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hey put that paper down .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I bought it for the articles .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh I enjoyed the interview .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and you said in there that your wife uh edits all your columns and she says do n't publish it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes she does .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You go back and rewrite it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm afraid I do .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My wife Andrea edits them all .", "entity": [{"entity": "Andrea", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and when she gives me thumbs down Howie I have to put it in a ball throw it in the circular file and start over .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Now your international readership on the New York Times website has gone down because of this new experiment the Times has where it costs forty nine ninety - five a year for non-subscribers at home to read Times columnists .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 55]}, {"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [113, 118]}, {"entity": "forty nine ninety - five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [138, 162]}, {"entity": "Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [206, 211]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's got to be disappointing for you .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know um I 'm torn .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uh and I 've said this to my bosses .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um I want my paper to thrive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and if we have a situation where young people grow up in the world that thinks that newspapers are things you read for free online who 's going to pay my travel expenses /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And at the same time one of the greatest things about New York Times online is I got to reach an audience that just was exponential to what you got in the dead tree edition of the New York Times .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 24]}, {"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [54, 68]}, {"entity": "the New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [176, 194]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And because I write about international affairs so I got a lot of young people in India and Egypt and whatnot .", "entity": [{"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 87]}, {"entity": "Egypt", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and for them fifty dollars that may be their tuition for half a year .", "entity": [{"entity": "fifty dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [13, 26]}, {"entity": "half a year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [57, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But at the same time I hope we can eventually find a way to re-engage those people because definitely we 've lost some of them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eh in the Valerie Plame leak investigation there 's an allegation bouncing around the blogosphere that I just thought I would address with you which is have New York Times columnists somehow been told not to write about this because of Judy Miller 's involvement and being in jail , now being out of jail .", "entity": [{"entity": "Valerie Plame", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 23]}, {"entity": "New York Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [157, 171]}, {"entity": "Judy Miller 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [236, 250]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "absolutely not .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Anybody tell you not to write about it /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean they do n't tell me not to write about anything .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Howie we are home alone okay .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean I 'm going to China uh on Monday .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "Monday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and there 's only one person knows I 'm going .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that 's my assistant .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So um /-", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Did you even tell the boss /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's right . so there 's no edict out there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "why people have n't written about it I do n't know .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm focused on other things .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's a lot we do n't know obviously about the Judith Miller situation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judith Miller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but why do you think that she has gotten so much criticism /?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After all whether you agree with her or not this is a woman who believed in her convictions and went off to jail for eighty - five days .", "entity": [{"entity": "eighty - five days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [117, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um you know um Judy 's always been a pioneer and an agent of change you know um and uh has been at the forefront of a lot of stories .", "entity": [{"entity": "Judy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and people like that in our business um uh engender a lot of attention a lot of criticism and a lot of jealousy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Um and uh that 's the only way I can really explain .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tom Friedman .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tom Friedman .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Up next did the media get carried away with last week 's subway terror alert /?", "entity": [{"entity": "last week 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 'll ride the rails into the spin cycle next .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And television was all over the story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "and the police here will be searching bags briefcases even baby strollers to try to stop it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was let 's face it irresistable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The threat concerns the New York City subway system behind me around me literally beneath our feet here in Times Square .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 37]}, {"entity": "Times Square", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [107, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Fox News alert New York City subways are on a heightened state of alert this evening after what officials are describing as a specific threat .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fox News", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "New York City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 32]}, {"entity": "this evening", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [76, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And the city 's tabloids were n't far behind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The problem as with so many previous terror alerts is that allegations from informants are inherently shaky .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And some correspondents offered caveats of course .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann could n't help but notice on that day October six it was news that Karl Rove had been called back to testify in the CIA leak case and the white house is being assailed by conservatives over the Harriet Miers nomination .", "entity": [{"entity": "MSNBC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Keith Olbermann", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 28]}, {"entity": "that day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 66]}, {"entity": "October six", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [67, 78]}, {"entity": "Karl Rove", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [96, 105]}, {"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [145, 148]}, {"entity": "the white house", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [163, 178]}, {"entity": "Harriet Miers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [223, 236]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "events that have been politically disadvantageous to the current administration have been uh occuring simultaneously or followed quickly upon with something related to terrorism on a big scale .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But the TV coverage kept rolling down the track like the number four express .", "entity": [{"entity": "number four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Finally last Tuesday some newspapers and then the cable networks reported that the whole thing was a hoax .", "entity": [{"entity": "last Tuesday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [8, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Well Jim Stewart of our Washington bureau quotes government sources tonight as saying the Iraqi man who gave that tip to US intelligence agents in Iraq now says the information was simply not true .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jim Stewart", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 16]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 34]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [68, 75]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [90, 95]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [121, 123]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [147, 151]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But that 's a lot more than NBC Nightly News and ABC 's World News Tonight which did n't mention the great subway hoax at all .", "entity": [{"entity": "NBC Nightly News", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 44]}, {"entity": "ABC 's World News Tonight", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [49, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In an age of terror such threats obviously need to be reported .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Reporters are tired of the usual standups you know Howard Kurtz Oshkosh Wisconsin .", "entity": [{"entity": "Howard Kurtz", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 63]}, {"entity": "Oshkosh", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 71]}, {"entity": "Wisconsin", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They want to be riding on a train or walking in the rain or something to get attention .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Well obviously we 're getting a nice break from the rain but not the flooding .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Two guys walk into the shot .", "entity": [{"entity": "Two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Talk about shallow reporting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And as the Media Research Center pointed out this was right before the Today Show accused President Bush of staging his conversation with soldiers in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Media Research Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [7, 32]}, {"entity": "the Today Show", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [67, 81]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [100, 104]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Join us again next Sunday at our new time ten o'clock eastern seven pacific for a full hour of critiquing the media .", "entity": [{"entity": "next Sunday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 25]}, {"entity": "ten o'clock eastern", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [42, 61]}, {"entity": "seven pacific", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [62, 75]}, {"entity": "a full hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [80, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Michael Jackson may be another example of a celebrity distraction which , upon examination , reveals more about our society 's mortal condition than a tabloid could imagine .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "His entourage including a `` personal magician '' for another .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even if you wanted to , you wo n't be reading Jermaine 's account now .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jermaine", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Like every Jackson sibling who 's tried to break from Joe , he 's climbed down , returned to the fold and scrapped the book , apparently on the strength of Michael 's threats to sue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "Joe", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 57]}, {"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [156, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Previously , Michael 's given cause for family observers to attribute his grotesque body dysmorphia to a dread of resembling his father .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yet there they were at Jackson 's trial last year , hand in hand .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the big picture Michael Jackson means not very much .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But his little picture may be more newsworthy than the news suggests .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "good stuff .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "having departed last June for a Bahrain `` vacation '' from which he 's yet to emerge .", "entity": [{"entity": "last June", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 25]}, {"entity": "Bahrain", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Actually , there have been reports for the past two days of Jackson back in California .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past two days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 56]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 67]}, {"entity": "California", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "#NAME ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wild wild stuff Jeff !", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Disinformation Distraction Dis and Dat ..", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The netwerk is as sacred to the state as their mantra `` My way or total annihilation . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bait and switch sets the agenda .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no such thing as an accident .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's Saturday morning , and the papers say a moon of Saturn is spewing life - giving water .... then I see the new R.I. post is about the perrenial child Michael Jackson .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saturday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [6, 14]}, {"entity": "Saturn", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [54, 60]}, {"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [155, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This day is named for Saturn ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Saturn", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Apparently Saturn is also intimately connected with Satan , Masonics , and Revelation 13 - you know , the `` number of the beast '' ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Saturn", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 17]}, {"entity": "Satan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [52, 57]}, {"entity": "Masonics", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 68]}, {"entity": "Revelation 13", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [75, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nevermind -", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I need a cup of coffee ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I looked in vain for the Cheney `` A hunting we will go '' to post this out and paste but ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And on the subject of cowardice , consider this . In a recent hunting escapade , Dick Cheney accidentally shot one of his hunting comrades .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dick Cheney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 92]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [111, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There may have been negligence involved , but that is up to the local district attorney to decide .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But more importantly , I think , is the nature of the hunt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Whether you are an animal lover or not , there is something disgusting and degrading about this kind of hunt and something less than human about those who participate in it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The link `` personal majician '' is intrigueing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From Madsen via Boucher :", "entity": [{"entity": "Madsen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 11]}, {"entity": "Boucher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jackson 's stay at the Cedars was arranged through David Kuo , George W. Bush 's White House director of the Office of Faith - based Initiatives .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Cedars", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [23, 29]}, {"entity": "David Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 60]}, {"entity": "George W. Bush 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [63, 80]}, {"entity": "the Office of Faith - based Initiatives", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [105, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kuo , a former CIA employee ... had been Executive Director of the Center for Effective Compassion , founded in 1995 by Arianna Huffington ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 18]}, {"entity": "the Center for Effective Compassion", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 98]}, {"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [112, 116]}, {"entity": "Arianna Huffington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [120, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kuo also previously worked for the Christian Coalition and Senator John Ashcroft .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "the Christian Coalition", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 54]}, {"entity": "John Ashcroft", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's also some curious Neverland / Disneyland connections to the `` Mickey Mouse Club '' children who are now stars , including Justin Timberlake ( remember the star on Janet Jackson 's breast ? ) and Brittany Spears , Christina Aguilera ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Neverland", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [27, 36]}, {"entity": "Disneyland", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [39, 49]}, {"entity": "Mickey Mouse Club", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [72, 89]}, {"entity": "Justin Timberlake", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [132, 149]}, {"entity": "Janet Jackson 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [173, 189]}, {"entity": "Brittany Spears", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [205, 220]}, {"entity": "Christina Aguilera", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [223, 241]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The piper walks into the mountain , still followed by the children , and the cave closes again ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here is Boucher 's follow up to the `` majician '' link of Jeff 's .", "entity": [{"entity": "Boucher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 15]}, {"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "on the mark as always , jeff ,", "entity": [{"entity": "jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [24, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but i thought you might cover chile 's inauguration of its first woman president today instead ...", "entity": [{"entity": "chile", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "maybe later as the story develops ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jeff Boucher 's piece mentions how victims of sexual abuse often have childlike voices , almost as if their development was ' frozen ' around the time of their abuse .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Boucher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jackson seems to be of this type .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or more perversely , fakes that he is :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I was always saying [ to Jackson ] people would n't think I was so crazy if they saw who the hell you really are , that you sit around , and you drink and you curse and you 're [ expletive ] funny and you have a bad mouth , and you do n't have that high voice all the time '' -", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lisa Marie Presley , in an interview quoted in a WaPo article written by Tina Brown :", "entity": [{"entity": "Lisa Marie Presley", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "WaPo", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [49, 53]}, {"entity": "Tina Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [73, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Michael Jackson 's False Front ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` David Geffen , be gone !", "entity": [{"entity": "David Geffen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Steven Spielberg , be gone ! ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Steven Spielberg", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The witch doctor cursing Michael Jackson 's enemies and blessing the tarnished King of Pop himself in a voodoo ritual in Switzerland in the summer of 2000 had promised that the 25 people on Jackson 's enemies list ( would soon be dead ) ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 43]}, {"entity": "King of Pop", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [79, 90]}, {"entity": "Switzerland", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [121, 132]}, {"entity": "the summer of 2000", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [136, 154]}, {"entity": "25", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [177, 179]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [190, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jackson had ordered his then business adviser , Myung - Ho Lee , a U.S. - educated Korean lawyer based in Seoul , to wire $ 150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba , who then had 42 cows ritually sacrificed for the ceremony .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Myung - Ho Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 62]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 71]}, {"entity": "Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 89]}, {"entity": "Seoul", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [106, 111]}, {"entity": "150,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [124, 131]}, {"entity": "Mali", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [145, 149]}, {"entity": "Baba", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [175, 179]}, {"entity": "42", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [195, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jackson had already undergone a blood bath ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The pop star , who is said to be $ 240 million in debt , had paid six figures for a ritual cleansing using sheep blood to another voodoo doctor and a mysterious Egyptian woman named Samia , who came to him with a letter of greeting from a high - ranking Saudi prince , purportedly Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Al - Saud , now the chief of intelligence of Saudi Arabia ...", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 240 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [33, 46]}, {"entity": "Egyptian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [161, 169]}, {"entity": "Samia", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [182, 187]}, {"entity": "Saudi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [254, 259]}, {"entity": "Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Al - Saud", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [281, 310]}, {"entity": "Saudi Arabia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [346, 358]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/articles/050411roco03c hmm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to that Vanity Fair article , Jacko and Uri Geller met through `` that other fellow devotee of children 's charities Mohamed Fayed , the chairman of Harrods in London , who believes that the C.I.A. and Prince Philip had Princess Diana and his son , Dodi , killed . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Vanity Fair", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 29]}, {"entity": "Jacko", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 45]}, {"entity": "Uri Geller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 60]}, {"entity": "Mohamed Fayed", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [127, 140]}, {"entity": "Harrods", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [159, 166]}, {"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [170, 176]}, {"entity": "C.I.A.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [201, 207]}, {"entity": "Prince Philip", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [212, 225]}, {"entity": "Princess Diana", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [230, 244]}, {"entity": "Dodi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [259, 263]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Anonymous quoted , `` Jackson 's stay at the Cedars was arranged through David Kuo ... ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 29]}, {"entity": "Cedars", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [45, 51]}, {"entity": "David Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [73, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hold on --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the Cedars is the headquarters of the Fellowship Foundation , the creepy Christianoid cult with deep political connections .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cedars", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "the Fellowship Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [34, 59]}, {"entity": "Christianoid", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [73, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Fellowship , also known as the International Foundation , bought the property from Charles Piluso .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fellowship", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "the International Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 59]}, {"entity": "Charles Piluso", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [87, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Could n't agree more .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Director of this firm is `` Baba Jobe '' .", "entity": [{"entity": "Baba Jobe", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "My question is , when is a victim guilty of abuse ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The bizarre from black - to - white and physical transformation must be the result of biotech advances .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If he does abuse ' his ' children , is he ' guilty ' as such if he is programmed ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I suspect he is a brilliant cover or red - herring used as a shield by very powerful forces , responsible for God - knows - what at his now - abandoned ranch .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's very effective , as many ' feel ' that whilst MJ is naive he 's not capable of the evil associated with pedophile activity .", "entity": [{"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [52, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This may not be the case , as the public ' persona ' is merely an ' alter ' personality and he may have many other ' personalities ' which are dark .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then comes the question whether his programmers were programmed themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If so , then they are all guilty of such abuse , whilst being innocent at the same time !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As most abuse is generational , the whole mind - control subject really has to be brought out in the open .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The very technology and tools used on the mind which harm can then be used to heal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Brr , Pied Piper .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I remember being spooked by that story as a kid .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Heck of a story to tell children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I was looking for a cool name for an undercover X-Files type military - occult agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "X-Files", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [48, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thought of ' SPECTRE ' but that seemed too James Bondish , and modified it to ' SPECTRA ' .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thinking rainbow - type symbology .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "What the ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "... of course , I did read a lot of weird stuff in passing as a kid ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's certainly possible that I came across it and forgot .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I never did write that story .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is n't Michael Jackson , and the entire Jackson clan , Jehovah 's Witness ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 22]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 47]}, {"entity": "Jehovah 's Witness", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was no mention made of this in either the main post or comments ....", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It would seem to me that their must be some relationship between that cult organization and all the `` high weirdness '' going on ....", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "no ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": ".... and it is a cult .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "FBI finally releases report on missing children .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "-- AP", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since 1985 nearly 13 million children missing ( those reported ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "1985", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [6, 10]}, {"entity": "13 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [18, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "An average of 615,874 per year since 1985 . 791,687 in 1995 alone .", "entity": [{"entity": "615,874", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [14, 21]}, {"entity": "1985", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "791,687", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [44, 51]}, {"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is an extraordinary group here .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I appreciate your candor and your capacity to build a knowledge base with each contributor adding to the thread that moves me in a sonambulant noiseless rush toward the truth .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are living the dieing", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and that is just as productive and rewarding as any other dimension of spirit that I have experienced", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If there is just one thing that disappoints me it is that all of the posters here prefer to be anonymous .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [17, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It would be wise for you to `` be '' yourself .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I tried to find emails for any that list a profile or website ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but none `` NONE '' of you are out there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Contact me at my profile email should you care to disclose yourself .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I would like to invite you to participate in FSHOD if that is not too much to ask .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "maybe we remain anonymous in preparation for the future .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm surprised I have n't heard this mentioned anywhere before , as it ties in perfectly with Jeff 's Bizarro Jacko Tabloid post :", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 98]}, {"entity": "Bizarro Jacko", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [102, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In an interview with Blender ( ca n't remember what issue , but Janet 's on the cover ) , Janet talks at length about having mulitiple personalities .", "entity": [{"entity": "Blender", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "Janet", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 69]}, {"entity": "Janet", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [90, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I ca n't remember all the details , but there 's Janet , the normal pop star , and among others ( and perhaps the most notable in this context ) one she calls `` Strawberry , '' who is geared towards explicit sexual activities .", "entity": [{"entity": "Janet", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As I understand , this is a classic alters description .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A Real MAN Would At Least Let A Former Board Member Be Able TO READ The Reason He Had Been Banned , But , I FORGOT I Was Dealing With A Coward !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "antiaristo will be disappointed , or HAS HE ALREADY BEEN BANNED , TOO ???", "entity": [{"entity": "antiaristo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND DEATHS . A HERO DIES BUT ONCE !!!!!!!!", "entity": [{"entity": "THOUSAND", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [16, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saint Alexander the Foolish , circa Third Millennium , a.D . Janet Jackson ;", "entity": [{"entity": "Saint Alexander the Foolish", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 27]}, {"entity": "Third Millennium", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [36, 52]}, {"entity": "Janet Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Strawberry Bounce '' lyrics :", "entity": [{"entity": "Strawberry Bounce", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [3, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Just watch the way I pump it", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The way I work it 's gon na keep you cumin'", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do a dance that 's so sensual", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'ma make you Lose Control", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't trip", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You know you wan na watch this", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm a pro you wo n't be disappointed", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Glad someone finally mentioned Janet .", "entity": [{"entity": "Janet", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I think the practice of black magic is something she and her brother have in common .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One mus n't forget her now infamous superbowl `` nipple '' stunt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rather than the ridiculous accident censors tried to make it out to be , I think it has to be recognized as a planned , purposeful piece of black magic , perpetraited literally in front of the world , on a very alchemically significant day and time", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( goes way beyond a ' publicity stunt , does n't it ? ' )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A friend even suggests that during her much earlier ' Rythm Nation ' period , in which she dons a black uniform and uses strange , synchopated hand movements in her video dance routine , that that too , is a kind of twilight language , intended on sending a specific message , in order to have a desired effect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's possible that jacksons have been using the occult arts for a long , long time .", "entity": [{"entity": "jacksons", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'd love to hear someone else 's thoughts on this -", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's a link to just a wee bit more about Jackson and her alleged MPD -", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I posted above that The Cedars , where Michael Jackson was mentioned as having stayed for a time , was the center of the Fellowship Foundation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cedars", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [24, 30]}, {"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 54]}, {"entity": "the Fellowship Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [117, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "but in this case it fits in so well with the ongoing discussion that I 'm tentatively inclined to trust it :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Raytheon CEO Tom Phillips and other figures in the military - industrial complex , pay the bills .", "entity": [{"entity": "Raytheon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Tom Phillips", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "After Tom DeLay was zapped , Charles Colson became DeLay 's personal guru .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tom DeLay", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [6, 15]}, {"entity": "Charles Colson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 43]}, {"entity": "DeLay", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Colson 's militancy for the End - Times war on Muslims has made him a congenial companion to Jack Abramoff in their keeping of DeLay -- Abramoff has repeatedly led Tom to Israel to call for all - out war against the Arabs .", "entity": [{"entity": "Colson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Muslims", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [47, 54]}, {"entity": "Jack Abramoff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [93, 106]}, {"entity": "DeLay", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [127, 132]}, {"entity": "Abramoff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [136, 144]}, {"entity": "Tom", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [164, 167]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [171, 177]}, {"entity": "Arabs", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [216, 221]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Christian Coalition co-founder Pat Robertson was himself a product of the Fellowship magic .", "entity": [{"entity": "Christian Coalition", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 23]}, {"entity": "Pat Robertson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 48]}, {"entity": "Fellowship", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Robertson was the good - for - nothing playboy son of Sen. A. Willis Robertson ( R - Va. ) , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee .", "entity": [{"entity": "Robertson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "A. Willis Robertson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 78]}, {"entity": "R", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [81, 82]}, {"entity": "Va.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 88]}, {"entity": "the Senate Finance Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [109, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pat began speaking in tongues and uttering prophecies under the guidance of Harald Bredesen , a master training agent of the Fellowship group , who had proved himself to the highest circles of British intelligence .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Harald Bredesen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [76, 91]}, {"entity": "Fellowship", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [125, 135]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [193, 200]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pat Robertson started off as assistant pastor to Bredesen , whose intelligence partners , the Full Gospel Businessmen 's Fellowship , raised the money to expand Robertson 's and Bredesen 's Virginia - based Christian Broadcasting Network ( CBN ) toward global power status .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pat Robertson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Bredesen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 57]}, {"entity": "the Full Gospel Businessmen 's Fellowship", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 131]}, {"entity": "Robertson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [161, 170]}, {"entity": "Bredesen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [178, 186]}, {"entity": "Virginia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [190, 198]}, {"entity": "Christian Broadcasting Network", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [207, 237]}, {"entity": "CBN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [240, 243]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The sentence I put in boldface is *extremely* interesting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Was n't there a Michael Jackson video where he was envisioning himself as ruler of the world or some such ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "to anonymous 9:30 re cults :", "entity": [{"entity": "anonymous 9:30", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The reason fear can arise so strongly is that you already have a very strong experience of being brainwashed and used in cultish behavior .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This cult is called society and its ' cult - ure ' gives rise to suffering .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you look closely , everything that is associated with cult behavior can lisewise be found in society 's behavior .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The same means of control are used : the constant reinforcement that you are helpless without society , that you can not survive without obeying its rules and that you will go to hell if you do n't obey the tenets of its religion . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Gangaji", "entity": [{"entity": "Gangaji", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "this site monitors Janet Jackson weight !", "entity": [{"entity": "Janet Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/janet-jackson/janet-jackson-is-too-fat-to-sing", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Anonymous One , I recall reading somewhere that Lisa Marie was a member of L.Ron 's cult .", "entity": [{"entity": "Anonymous One", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Lisa Marie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 58]}, {"entity": "L.Ron", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You will notice that Michael 's real troubles started after he suied Sony chief Tommy Mattola , who was heard to say `` he 'll live to regret the day '' .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "Sony", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 73]}, {"entity": "Tommy Mattola", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [80, 93]}, {"entity": "day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [146, 149]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't ever think of fucken with the evil bastards in the Music biz , later .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's a description of that Michael Jackson item I was remembering :", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By the time the release of 1995 's HIStory album -- a double album of greatest hits and new tracks -- approached , Michael had fully realized a new perception of himself , one that was truly larger than life .", "entity": [{"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 31]}, {"entity": "HIStory", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [35, 42]}, {"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "This extravagant production begins with a colossal army goose - stepping through a European city in crisp , tan uniforms , waving red flags and sporting red - and - black insignias .", "entity": [{"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Military music pounds .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Crowds swell at the sidelines , screaming and crying .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The implication seems to be these men represent Nazis .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nazis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But then , their leader is revealed to be Michael , marching right up front .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [42, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When peasant workers break free to touch Michael , they are immediately swallowed by soldiers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [41, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Suddenly , it is night , and a tarp - covered , skyscraper - sized structure looms over the poor nation as choppers spray spotlights across it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Brainwashed fans scream , salute with one arm and light candles with religious zeal .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [38, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Signs proclaiming `` King of Pop , '' a title Michael disavowed to Oprah only two years earlier , are everywhere , emphasizing the word `` King . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "King of Pop", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [21, 32]}, {"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 53]}, {"entity": "Oprah", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 72]}, {"entity": "two years earlier", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [78, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Finally , the tarp drops , and it is , of course , a gargantuan , bronze statue of Michael , fists clenched defiantly , his star insignia prominent , yet his face still somehow child - like and unthreatening .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The video is a highly disturbing piece of work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "His bloated sense of importance is not only chilling , it is threatening .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Suddenly , Michael 's perfect world of Oz / Neverland is forced to be compared with an Aryan Nation , one that substitutes children for Hitler 's master race .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "Oz", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [39, 41]}, {"entity": "Neverland", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [44, 53]}, {"entity": "an Aryan Nation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [84, 99]}, {"entity": "Hitler", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [136, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Large image of the Michael Jackson HIStory statue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 34]}, {"entity": "HIStory", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [35, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is some sort of an emblem with a star on his shoulder , but it 's at an angle and not easy to make out clearly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "'' ... a haughty spirit goeth before a fall . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "BTW - and off topic :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Check out this superb psyop image .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jeff , I do n't think even you could do better than this :", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11800917/", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Remember who Janet shared the stage with at the Superbowl ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Janet", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "Superbowl", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [48, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , you remember correctly : former Mousketeer Justin Timberlake .", "entity": [{"entity": "Justin Timberlake", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hmmm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The plot thickens .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "JW's and child abuse .", "entity": [{"entity": "JW's", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/live_forums/2124808.stm", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "BTW Jeff - I 'd caught the Geller / Jackson connection a while back and posted on the discussion board .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "Geller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 33]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [36, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fascinating how this all seems to be inter-related .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "hmmm ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "in March 2003 Jackson distraction - o - mania was part of the media smokescreen that led up the Iraq war ...", "entity": [{"entity": "March 2003", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 13]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 21]}, {"entity": "the Iraq war", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [92, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and now Fox news and other rabid - right media outlets have once again taken to whipping on Jackson ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Fox news", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 16]}, {"entity": "Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [92, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( like any sane people really care about what the hell MJ is doing any more . )", "entity": [{"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [55, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A signs of another impending misadventure in the mideast ?", "entity": [{"entity": "mideast", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [49, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what 's with Uri Geller 's links to MJ ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Uri Geller 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 30]}, {"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Anyone else smell a whiff of that whole Prophet Yahweh sideshow from awhile back ? trivial , but here 's stargods ' comprehensive analysis of jacko :", "entity": [{"entity": "Prophet Yahweh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 54]}, {"entity": "stargods", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [105, 113]}, {"entity": "jacko", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [142, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "regarding the JW reference .", "entity": [{"entity": "JW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't think we need see a plot in every wood pile .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The JW considers itself THE kingdom of God on earth .", "entity": [{"entity": "JW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( ' Kindom Hall ' )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So it is only to be expected that they do not see a reason to run to and report everything to the government .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The same goes for the Roman Catholic Church .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Roman Catholic Church", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the RCC has had a widespread problem with this regard , doubltlessly because their policy / doctrine of a celibate priesthood simply attracts these deviants .", "entity": [{"entity": "RCC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I doubt any such problem exist on the same proportionate scale in the JW heirarchy .", "entity": [{"entity": "JW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [70, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Besides that , ca n't you see the embedded mind control in that article , as well as all general media output .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Message Is : `` Big Brother must be informed !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Only Big Brother can manage society ! ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "See , it 's the Hegelian dialectic at work .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eveyone needs to sharpen their awareness of this shit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As long as Big Brother is the answer for everything , Big Brother will BE everything .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( If people do n't want their kids pederastized , but yet they entrust them to ' guys in gowns ' I just wonder what the hell are they thinking anyway ? )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'd watch the Peter Pan speculations , unless you know what versions you are discussing and can differentiate between them accurately .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter Pan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some of the assumptions I 've seen ( such as a couple made by Tim Boucher and Fantastic Planet in last year 's postings linked here ) may have looked like they worked to support their thesis , but in actuality have either a tenuous or no connection to the core Peter Pan mythos .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tim Boucher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [62, 73]}, {"entity": "Fantastic Planet", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 94]}, {"entity": "Peter Pan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [261, 270]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't make up things like Peter abducting children that you ca n't substantiate .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Peter Pan was a work in progress for JM Barrie , who kept tinkering with it over the years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter Pan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "JM Barrie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To understand what it actually means to Michael Jackson and what you might speculate he is enacting , you have to know where on the continuum of Peter Pans his internalized Peter ( no , not THAT kind of peter ) lies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 55]}, {"entity": "Peter Pans", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [145, 155]}, {"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [173, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Novel , play ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Musical , cartoon ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shadow of a shadow of a remembered story ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In one of the oldest versions , Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ( extracted from The Little White Bird ) , is only a week old .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [32, 63]}, {"entity": "The Little White Bird", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [81, 102]}, {"entity": "week old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [117, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "and that wildness is still in him , as it is with all children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Barrie 's only cryptic instructions on character development to Nina Boucicault , the first actress to play Peter , was that she was to remember that Peter is a bird , and is one day old .", "entity": [{"entity": "Barrie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Nina Boucicault", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 79]}, {"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [108, 113]}, {"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [150, 155]}, {"entity": "one day old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [175, 186]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Kensington Gardens he watches out for children who have fallen un-noticed out of their perambulators .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kensington Gardens", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [3, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If a bad fairy finds them , or they perish from the cold an dark overnight in the park , Peter digs them graves and makes them headstones .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [89, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "If they are not claimed in seven days , `` they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "seven days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 37]}, {"entity": "Neverland", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [73, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A far cry from the stealing of children .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Peter and the Lost Boys crave a mother to tell them stories .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's ironic that while their own lives are far more exotic than the fairy tales Wendy tells , it 's those fictions that they want , told by a mother .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wendy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Barrie says quite explicitly in Peter and Wendy that it is Wendy who does the tempting to keep Peter with her , not the other way around .", "entity": [{"entity": "Barrie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Peter and Wendy", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [32, 47]}, {"entity": "Wendy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 64]}, {"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [95, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is she who asks if Michael and John could come too .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 29]}, {"entity": "John", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If those of you with the abduction theory would like to give specific quotes and information on where it is shown that Peter abducted the children , please do .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peter", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [119, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I think you are making it up from a version that does n't exist in reality , or that ca n't be tied to Michael Jackson .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [107, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We do n't gain better understanding of the inner workings of Michael Jackson by distorting the material on which we purportedly base our theories .", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jeff - I just have to say that I love the Rigorous Intuition Live365 channel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jeff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 've been listening to it to the last couple of days and just bought Dylan 's ' Oh Mercy ' .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dylan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 75]}, {"entity": "Oh Mercy", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [81, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How does the copyright thing work on a Live365 stream ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Avalon , can you recommend a good work of commentary and analysis on JM Barrie 's works ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Avalon", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "JM Barrie 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "- Sepka the Space Weasel", "entity": [{"entity": "- Sepka the Space Weasel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Was Michael Jackson influenced by Bob Fosse 's `` Snake in the grass '' character from the 1974 movie The Little Prince ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "Bob Fosse 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 46]}, {"entity": "1974", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [91, 95]}, {"entity": "The Little Prince", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [102, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Has anyone else seen this scene ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bob Fosse 's snake looks and moves would be imitated ( and made more popular ) years later by the King of Pop , Michael Jackson .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bob Fosse 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "years later", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [79, 90]}, {"entity": "the King of Pop", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 109]}, {"entity": "Michael Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [112, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "View the video here : http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8mJsgPj1iU", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "About the JW thing , I work with a couple of them ( BTW , some of the most respectable people I know .", "entity": [{"entity": "JW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Which is why I decided to ask ... ) ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I had a chance to ask them about MJ and the child abuse , if they knew anything .", "entity": [{"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "About MJ they said , he is definately not a JW , despite what he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [6, 8]}, {"entity": "JW", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Provocative lyrics and grabbing ones crotch in public , does n't fit with their defination of ' Christian ' .", "entity": [{"entity": "Christian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [96, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They said all they knew was that his mother ( who apparently is still a member ) took him to their church as a kid .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The father apparently had little or no involvement at all .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for the child abuse , I have to agree with the post above , you can find abuse and ' sick ' individuals in ANY organization ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but you have too look at the proportion to the rest of society .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One of my friends is an ' elder ' ( soething like a ' local church leader ' ) ,", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "but he also said their instructions say that if they hear of any abuse they are to follow local laws , which usually requires them to inform the police ASAP .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if the abuse is at all serious to report it to the police regardless .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Though i do n't agree with all of their beliefs , I know these guys well enough to call them friends .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So in their respect , after reading some of the other comments , I decided to listen to their side before passing judgement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We should ALL be careful not to pass judgement on ENTIRE groups of people based on the apparent actions of a few .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is what Hitler tried to do .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hitler", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With thiking like that , even if we got rid of the evil elite , a new set of ' evil elite ' would rise again in their place .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That seems to be the nature of man , though .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have all got to do what we can without needlessly attacking the innocent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Remember , group hatred only plays into their hands , be it racial , religious , or class .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sepka , the two reference books I have on Peter Pan are : Fifty Years of Peter Pan , Roger Lancelyn Green , pub. by Peter Davies , London , 1954 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sepka", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Peter Pan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [42, 51]}, {"entity": "Fifty Years of Peter Pan", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [58, 82]}, {"entity": "Roger Lancelyn Green", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [85, 105]}, {"entity": "Peter Davies", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 128]}, {"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [131, 137]}, {"entity": "1954", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [140, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's pretty scarce at this point , though you might be able to find a copy to read through inter-library loan .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Peter Pan Chronicles , Bruce K. Hanson , Birch Lane Press , NY , 1993", "entity": [{"entity": "The Peter Pan Chronicles", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 24]}, {"entity": "Bruce K. Hanson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 42]}, {"entity": "Birch Lane Press", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 61]}, {"entity": "NY", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 66]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I have n't really delved into Barrie 's psyche from the biographical end , it 's Peter and Wendy as an extraordinary piece of writing that has always fascinated me .", "entity": [{"entity": "Barrie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 36]}, {"entity": "Peter and Wendy", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [81, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "... and if you listen to `` My Way '' by sinatra , backwards , the real answer will be revealed .", "entity": [{"entity": "My Way", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [28, 34]}, {"entity": "sinatra", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [41, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://stargods.org/MasonicMichaelJackson.htm", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uri Geller was one of MJ 's handlers apparently .", "entity": [{"entity": "Uri Geller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [15, 18]}, {"entity": "MJ", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guo Kai 's Economic Notes : Beijing 's Gas Price vs. US Gas Price", "entity": [{"entity": "Guo Kai 's Economic Notes", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 25]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guo Kai 's Economic Notes", "entity": [{"entity": "Guo Kai 's Economic Notes", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the US the current average price of regular unleaded gas is about 2.3 US dollars per gallon ( 3.78 liters ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 9]}, {"entity": "2.3 US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [69, 83]}, {"entity": "( 3.78 liters )", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [95, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to the official exchange rate of one US dollar for 7.9 RMB , this price is equivalent to 4.80 yuan / liter .", "entity": [{"entity": "one US dollar", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [43, 56]}, {"entity": "7.9 RMB", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [61, 68]}, {"entity": "4.80 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [99, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Note , this gas price includes all taxes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The current gas price in Beijing is 5.09 yuan / liter , 2 mao and 9 fen more than in the US .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 32]}, {"entity": "5.09 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [36, 45]}, {"entity": "2 mao and 9 fen", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [56, 71]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , the gas price difference between the two places is larger than 2 mao and 9 fen because China 's gas price does not include so many taxes as in the US ; for example , the highway maintenance fee in China is paid separately .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [47, 50]}, {"entity": "2 mao and 9 fen", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [73, 88]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 159]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [207, 212]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just now , I only narrated a fact .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I believe that different persons see different problems in this fact .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let me describe people 's two reactions that I can imagine , or the two problems I can see .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 29]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [68, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "1. The US gas price is too cheap .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In an absolute sense , the US gas price has +already been cheaper than China 's , and in a relative sense , the US gas price is even cheaper .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 29]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 76]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the US , the money you pay for a meal at McDonald 's can fill up more than 10 liters of gas , but in Beijing you can get 5 - 6 liters of gas at most .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 9]}, {"entity": "McDonald", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 52]}, {"entity": "10 liters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [78, 87]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [104, 111]}, {"entity": "5 - 6 liters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [124, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The US low gas price policy has undoubtedly led to this country 's excessive use of and overdependence on energy resources .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , there is more to this matter , the whole world has to share the various negative effects caused by the US excessive energy consumption : global warming , and wars caused by oil , etc.", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is totally a joke that the US gas price could be cheaper than China 's .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 32]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "2. China 's gas price is too expensive .", "entity": [{"entity": "2.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Both Americans and Chinese buy gas from the international market , and the technology and cost of oil refinement are not too much different .", "entity": [{"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [5, 14]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [19, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But with the US gas price including taxes even lower than China 's gas price excluding taxes , you can see how much money Chinese oil companies have made out of this .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 15]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 63]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [122, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If there are no price controls and monopolies , China 's gas price should n't have been this high .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I want to say that I think these two opinions are both correct .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [33, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , on the issue of oil consumption , I think China and the US , the No. 1 and No. 2 oil consumers in the world , are also a funny pair .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [61, 63]}, {"entity": "1", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 75]}, {"entity": "2", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [84, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From a global perspective , the US gas price is obviously too low .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [32, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So Mankiw at Harvard even formed a \" Pigou Club , \" gathering social celebrities who support levying higher taxes on gas prices ( hereby raising gas prices ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mankiw", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 9]}, {"entity": "Harvard", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China 's gas prices are more complicated .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , gas prices in China are probably not very high , but in order to reduce China 's future overdependence on gas , it may be better that China 's gas prices are higher .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 29]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 87]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [144, 149]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But , the direct result of the gas price increase in China will be the increase of monopoly profits of the monopoly companies .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This part of money will not become the government tax revenue , will not be used for public welfare , and on the contrary , will only make the benefits of those people working at the monopoly department even better .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In other words , the gas price in China is too high in the distributive sense .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is the price that transfers the entire social resources to a very small number of people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But in terms of sustainability , China 's gas price may still be too low .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We need high gas prices to control the overdependence on energy imports .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps someone will condemn me , saying further increase of gas prices will make life unbearable for people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you are a taxi driver , my reply is : the reason your life is unbearable is not the gas price , but because of our taxi licensing regulation system .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you are a car owner , my reply is : ride the subway and bus more often .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It saves money , reduces congestion , and also lets you know car owners are not in a position to say \" life is unbearable . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Compared with most people , your life is already quite good .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "darling0823", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Comparing McDonald 's in the US with McDonald 's in China may not be right .", "entity": [{"entity": "McDonald", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 18]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 31]}, {"entity": "McDonald", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 45]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eating a meal at McDonald 's in the US is more comparable to buying a 5 - yuan boxed meal in China .", "entity": [{"entity": "McDonald", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 25]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 38]}, {"entity": "5 - yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [70, 78]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Advice to Wu Jinglian and Others : Killing the Father -- Does You No Good ! .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wu Jinglian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "613305", "entity": [{"entity": "613305", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Posted by [ Little Peng Zhongyi ] at Jan 3 , 2007 18:53:26 [ SMS ] [ Tables ] .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peng Zhongyi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 31]}, {"entity": "Jan 3 , 2007", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 49]}, {"entity": "18:53:26", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [50, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Some Thoughts on the Attitude of Benign Inheritance towards Social Reform .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A glance at the title , people with a little political sensitivity may roughly understand the core topic of this article : the rule of benign interaction between planned economy and market economy , and between public ownership and private ownership -- because only their relationships are those between a father and a son , and it is only between them are there different conflicts involving \" human relations , \" \" rules \" and \" science , \" as well as bloody wrestling between classes , factions and individuals on the basis of morality and interests .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Comparing planned economy and public ownership to a father is tantamount to comparing market economy and private ownership to a son , which holds water principally and historically no matter you put it this way or another .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is because the former two given \" fatherhood \" are indeed the most essential factors of the national character and institution of the socialist new China , while the latter two dubbed \" son \" in this article -- are indeed the ideological outcomes derived after the death of China 's founder Comrade Mao Zedong under tremendous international and domestic political pressures on planned economy and public ownership , which grew into today 's para-system after about 30 years of reform and opening up .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [27, 30]}, {"entity": "socialist", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [139, 148]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [153, 158]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [279, 284]}, {"entity": "Mao Zedong", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [304, 314]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [437, 442]}, {"entity": "30 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [470, 478]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Regarding this , the factual development process of political civilization that the Marxist ideology has been increasingly marginalized over the past 30 years or so is a strong evidence .", "entity": [{"entity": "Marxist", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [84, 91]}, {"entity": "the past 30 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [141, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By sorting out the essence of the above historical background and conceptual relationships , we will have a pretty thorough , comprehensive and systematic knowledge framework about the benign inevitable trends and development guidelines of the future society dependent on the rule of society , so that the associated impression captured may be more concrete .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Regarding this , my standpoint is : because the socialism underpinned by planned economy , public ownership and the people 's democratic dictatorship is indeed a really \" fresh \" systemic thing for China in the mid and late 20th century -- without a model or sufficient experience or theories to refer to , no matter how scientific its kernel is , it is hard not to have certain superficial and local problems .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [198, 203]}, {"entity": "the mid and late 20th century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [207, 236]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , this should not provide an excuse to overthrow it by fair means or foul , as he is our father and the common choice of millions of laboring people .", "entity": [{"entity": "millions", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [129, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fact that it \" finally became our national character and main system after over half a century of international and domestic political transformation \" is a stronger proof that it is the milestone for a new civilization resulted from the blood and sweat of thousands of proletarian revolutionary martyrs .", "entity": [{"entity": "half a century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [84, 98]}, {"entity": "thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [261, 270]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , no matter from the perspective of average citizens or from the standpoint of the founder of the new government , we should respect and develop her on the basis of inheritance , innovation and improvement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is my opinion above correct ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe you will naturally obtain a relatively fair and just conclusion if you could understand and treat the above - mentioned \" father \" system and \" son \" system with impartiality and sufficient goodwill .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For example , based on the existing institutional cultural heritage in the human history , we could see : the \" father \" system mentioned herein has the majority in mind or it is established in the fundamental and long - term interests of the majority , as well as the need for sustainable and sound development of the country , the nation , and the overall society -- while the \" son \" system mentioned herein is ignorant and sick in the company of such behavioral characteristics as exploitation , fraudulence , pernicious influence and robbery .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So , we can not urge the son to throttle the essentially healthy and scientific \" father \" system by fair mean or foul without considering the consequences , because there are problems in its practice and development -- such as state monopoly for purchases and sales , lower efficiency due to centralized management , and inhibition of the will of productivity by undue political pressure resulting from class struggles during the new deal .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is because that will not only make the society increasingly ignorant and sick as it violates the rule of benign social development , distorts normal \" human relations \" and the ethic and prevalent value and the rule of civilization update rooted in it , but the humanity will retrogress as people 's thoughts and behaviors become increasingly ridiculous .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , this is the case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My opinion above is not absurd and delusive at all , because this is true not only in theory , but also to the rule of social development as demonstrated by historical facts , as well as from the perspective of the situation and reality of the country : None of the current \" advocates of market economy , private ownership and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie \" has established and proposed a new deal \" against planned economy , public ownership and dictatorship of the proletariat . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All their criticisms are directed at the developmental symptoms such as \" lower efficiency due to centralized management \" or \" inhibition of the will of productivity by undue political pressure resulting from class struggles during the new deal , \" all their proclamations are political attacks and instigation aimed to win over the less than 5 % \" vested interests , \" and their development logic asks the \" 95 % \" laboring people to stay where they are and willingly endure the hard work -- it speaks for itself how empty , ridiculous , sick , ignorant and anti-government it is .", "entity": [{"entity": "less than 5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [334, 347]}, {"entity": "\" 95 % \"", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [408, 416]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's why I want to say to the world and the age by the end of the article : when the father 's toes are injured , we should try our best to treat the foot problem , and open up a new life and embrace health in the principle of respecting human relations , obeying people 's wishes , conforming to science and carrying on the legacy -- if the present capitalist followers frantically urge the son to kill him by all means , the result could only be a tragedy !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And these happen to be the core of the destiny where the capitalist roaders \" will inevitably bury themselves due to their ignorance and insanity , and more or less harm the human society ! \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At last , I would like to admonish sincerely and earnestly those who blindly oppose , hate and even suppress planned economy , public ownership and dictatorship of the proletariat , especially the \" mainstream elite scholars \" including Wu Jinglian , who insist on smearing the \" father \" to the end : do not treat the \" fathers \" on which the new civilization is based barbarously , against your conscience and frantically for immediate gains .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wu Jinglian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [237, 248]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The result is definitely a tragedy -- because even if you kill the \" father , \" your felony will be disdained by the age and condemned by the people , which naturally leads to nothing good !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Independent economic and human studies analyst .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Brother and companion of conscientious Chinese sons and daughters : Peng Zhongyi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [39, 46]}, {"entity": "Peng Zhongyi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "January 2 , 2007 .", "entity": [{"entity": "January 2 , 2007 .", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Contact for friendship and blame", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "QQ : 22761792", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "MSN : p...@hotmail.com", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "email : youyutianshi...@sina.com", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eliminate the personal income tax ( Reproduced from Yueguang blog ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yueguang blog", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [52, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dift Wu", "entity": [{"entity": "Dift Wu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Official data confirm that in 2004 the total personal income tax for the country amounted to approximately 181 billion , of which 65 % came from the working class , and only 10 % came from the wealthy .", "entity": [{"entity": "2004", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 34]}, {"entity": "approximately 181 billion", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [93, 118]}, {"entity": "65 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [130, 134]}, {"entity": "10 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [174, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Clearly the personal income tax policy has too little effect on controlling wealth accumulation by the rich , and too little impact on improving the quality of life of wage earners .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While this type of tax in China has no effect on regulating the income gap or on \" taking from the rich to help the poor , \" neither is it beneficial in expanding the working class .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If this tax continues to be collected , it will be working against the original intention behind the income tax .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Clearly the necessity for the personal income tax needs to be challenged .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I propose eliminating the personal income tax just as the agricultural tax was eliminated , to give people an opportunity to prosper .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we think in terms of humanizing the system , i.e. , helping the poor by letting poor people get rich , we should give low - and moderate - income people a chance to improve and raise the quality of their lives ; the threshold for China 's personal income tax should be at least tripled from the starting threshold of 800 yuan per month , i.e. , to 6400 yuan per person .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [233, 238]}, {"entity": "800 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [320, 328]}, {"entity": "6400 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [351, 360]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That would take it to a minimally humanized level , and then we could really talk about \" people first . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [97, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With a threshold below this level , the poor will always be poor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yesterday CCTV presented a program on adjustment of the personal income tax , emphasized that the main goal of the adjustment was to \" take from the rich \" and let poor people get wealthy .", "entity": [{"entity": "CCTV", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we really want to give poor people a chance to get wealthy , the threshold for the personal income tax should be tripled .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With anything under this threshold , the poor will have no chance to get rich .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if we 're looking at it in terms of \" taking from the rich , \" the problem to be adjusted is definitely not whether or not to tax income but rather the problem of the actual method for distributing China 's social national income , namely how to eliminate the \" unreported income . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [202, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The income of the vast majority of China 's rich people is unreported income , and unreported income is a problem that Chinese society will not be able to solve for quite a long time to come ; it is a characteristic of China , an uncontrollable black hole in China 's social oversight .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 40]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [119, 126]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [219, 224]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [259, 264]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is far from being a tax problem ; it is a deeper systemic problem .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If China 's personal income tax can not achieve the effect of helping the poor to become rich , neither can it control the excessive incomes of the wealthy , so what is it we expect this personal income tax to do ?", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It would be better to eliminate it in one fell swoop , as we did with the agricultural tax .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [38, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Below are some of the main reasons :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "1. China 's income tax can not become a tool for keeping the poor perpetually poor ; it can not become a social tool that keeps on producing a penniless proletariat .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In China the primary function of the income tax is to increase the state 's financial revenues ; it is not to regulate the income gap .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 2004 China 's income taxes amounted to approximately 180 billion , accounting for about 6 % of the state 's financial revenues .", "entity": [{"entity": "2004", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [8, 13]}, {"entity": "approximately 180 billion", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 67]}, {"entity": "about 6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [85, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But of this 180 billion , about 65 % , or 117 billion , was paid by the working class .", "entity": [{"entity": "180 billion", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 23]}, {"entity": "about 65 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [26, 36]}, {"entity": "117 billion", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Less than 10 % was paid by the wealthy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Less than 10 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In China more than 90 % of the people who depend on fully declared total earnings for a living are urban poor .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}, {"entity": "more than 90 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [9, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These poor people , who struggle just to pay for the necessities of life , their children 's education , old age , illness and death , also have to pay income tax .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In all of China 's cities now , anyone with a monthly income of 2000 yuan or less is considered poor .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 15]}, {"entity": "2000 yuan or less", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [64, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If a husband and wife have a total monthly work income of 2000 yuan , and if they pay 33 % income tax on anything over 1500 yuan , they have a disposable income of only 1670 yuan .", "entity": [{"entity": "2000 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [58, 67]}, {"entity": "33 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [86, 90]}, {"entity": "over 1500 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [114, 128]}, {"entity": "1670 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [169, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A household like this can not even continue bearing basic living expenses , and their standard of living will decline .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And should anyone in the household get sick and have to go to the hospital , the family may well find itself in an economic crisis .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if a family like this wants to buy its own home , that will basically be impossible .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if only one person in a three - person family is employed , the family will have a very difficult life .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [28, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But even so , they have to pay 165 yuan in income tax .", "entity": [{"entity": "165 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [31, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Clearly , if our income tax threshold is set at 1500 yuan , our society is destined always to produce a proletariat , always to deny hope to the poor or to the masses of ever getting rich .", "entity": [{"entity": "1500 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [48, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Our production relations are no different from the production relations in Marx 's \" Das Kapital , \" constantly reproducing a proletariat who can only rely on selling its labor to make a living .", "entity": [{"entity": "Marx", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 79]}, {"entity": "Das Kapital", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [85, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In short , if the personal income tax threshold is set lower than 6400 yuan , it will be ineffective in helping the poor get rich .", "entity": [{"entity": "6400 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [66, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Conversely , if the threshold is too low , it will cleanly and quickly inhibit the ability of poor people to get rich .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "2. The personal income tax is absolutely unable to control the accumulation of wealth by the rich .", "entity": [{"entity": "2.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We should not entertain any illusions that China 's income tax can in any way regulate income distribution , much less that it can \" take from the rich and give to the poor . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [43, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Chinese society , 20 % of the people hold 80 % of social wealth , and 80 % of the people are able to use only 20 % of the social wealth to suffer through their lives .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [3, 10]}, {"entity": "20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [21, 25]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [45, 49]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [73, 77]}, {"entity": "20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [113, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In China , freedom , human rights , democracy , happiness and all the other most effective benefits that society can offer refer only to 20 % of the people .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}, {"entity": "20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [137, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Western countries that attack China for not having human rights , democracy and freedom are quite wrong ; these 20 % of upper - class citizens have broader human rights , democracy and freedom than do Western societies .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 35]}, {"entity": "these 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [106, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When God looks at China , he sees only these 20 % ; the other 80 % he ca n't see clearly .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 23]}, {"entity": "these 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [39, 49]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [62, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The income of the vast majority of these 20 , of upper - class citizens in China is basically unreported income ; the proportion of their income that comes from fully declared earnings is a negligible part of their wealth .", "entity": [{"entity": "20", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [41, 43]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Only if China eliminated unreported income would the income tax have an effect on rich people .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [8, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And if China wants to eliminate unreported income , to date there is no sign of that , and there is no compelling evidence to explain when China might eliminate unreported income .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 12]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Anyhow , it is not something our generation will see .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That is why the income tax has no effect on regulating the wealth of China 's rich people .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It does however have a highly restrictive effect on the ability of poor people to get rich .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A very simple explanation is that poor people are all wage earners who rely on fully declared wages for their living ; they do not have unreported income .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fully 100 % of their income falls within the income - tax field of vision , so they ca n't escape even if they wanted to .", "entity": [{"entity": "100 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [6, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Add to this the fact that the threshold is under the level required to meet the necessary expenditures to maintain the basic necessities of life , and the poor are completely stymied .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Dragons give birth to dragons , phoenixes to phoenixes ; the son of a bandit will live in a cave . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The children of poor people are always poor . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the previous 800 yuan income tax threshold , if it were strictly enforced , 80 % of beggars would have to pay .", "entity": [{"entity": "800 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [18, 26]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [81, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With a threshold set below 5000 yuan , this generation of poor people need not think about buying a home or driving a car .", "entity": [{"entity": "5000 yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [27, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They will always be poor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , many children of poor people are able to get rich , but this came about because the parents struggled harder , tightening their belts and \" skimping on food and clothing \" for themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now how many university students who have received acceptance notifications are unable to enroll , and how many enrolled university students from the countryside have parents who are living through unimaginably hard times ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Western countries , the personal income tax is the most effective means of controlling excessively high incomes among the rich .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But these are countries ruled by law , where official income is all recorded , citizen 's incomes are fully transparent , and therefore the personal income tax can easily achieve the effect of regulating income distribution .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The situation in China is not like that ; if the personal income tax has an effect , it 's to increase financial revenues , and it has absolutely no income - regulating effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "3. Eliminating the income tax will benefit peasants .", "entity": [{"entity": "3.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The vast majority of China 's 900 million peasants are unable to reach the income level for paying income tax .", "entity": [{"entity": "900 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [30, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the peasants have contractual land , they have a low - consumption rural lifestyle and conditions , and they have basic housing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But if people in the cities do n't have money , everything is a struggle .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If they go shopping for food by bike , they have to pay 20 cents for parking .", "entity": [{"entity": "20 cents", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [56, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They ca n't not pay the rent or they 'll have to sleep on the street .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In terms of macroeconomic law , the distribution of wealth in Chinese society is set at 2/8 , with the 20 % of wealthy people holding 80 % of the social wealth , and the 80 % of poor people holding just 20 % of the social wealth .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 69]}, {"entity": "2/8", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [88, 91]}, {"entity": "the 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [99, 107]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [134, 138]}, {"entity": "the 80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [166, 174]}, {"entity": "20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [203, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The personal income tax threshold is too low , the urban population is too large , and the population participating in the 20 % that goes to peasants is even greater , so the peasants ultimately have to get a reduced share of this 20 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "the 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [119, 127]}, {"entity": "this 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [226, 235]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we eliminate the personal income tax , the number of poor people in the cities will be reduced , and the people participating in the peasant struggle for this 20 % will be reduced , which will benefit the peasants .", "entity": [{"entity": "this 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [157, 166]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In China the wealthy will always hold 80 % of the social wealth ; there has never been a softhearted rich person .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [38, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "4. This will really be beneficial in establishing a soft - landing market economy system .", "entity": [{"entity": "4.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In recent years China 's rate of state financial growth has been higher than economic growth ; this is a highly abnormal phenomenon , and in terms of economic theory it is highly adverse for sustained , healthy growth of the national economy .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 15]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The blood has all been pumped out of the national economy ; it 's like eating up all the seeds sown in the spring .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The proportion of financial revenues from the personal income tax is about 6 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [69, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If we cancel out this 6 % , we can slow down financial growth .", "entity": [{"entity": "this 6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [17, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And in the Chinese economic cycle , excessive financial investment is not a good thing for economic growth and the establishment of a true market economy system .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [11, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Compared to market investment , the efficiency of financial investment is less than half .", "entity": [{"entity": "less than half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And when there is too much financial investment , corruption is everywhere , all the time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "5. It promotes the establishment of a harmonious society .", "entity": [{"entity": "5.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chinese and foreign history amply demonstrates that a harmonious society is an olive - shaped society : the distribution of numbers of poor , middle - class and wealthy people making up the society is small at either end and larger in the middle , with 40 % or more of the society being middle class .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "40 % or more", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [253, 265]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chinese society is 80 % poor people , 20 % wealthy ; there is no stable middle class , or it floats between the lower levels of the wealthy and the upper end of the poor and is highly unstable .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [19, 23]}, {"entity": "20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [38, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no way this \" 2/8 \" social structure can establish a harmonious society .", "entity": [{"entity": "2/8", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Eliminating the personal income tax to accumulate wealth for the people will be beneficial in producing and nourishing a middle class and will promote the creation of a harmonious society .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In short , if our personal income tax policy can not help the poor get rich , and is unable to limit the excessive increase in wealth among the rich , then it is better not to have this kind of personal income tax .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We need to adopt this kind of strategic insight when we consider this matter , so as to benefit the country and the people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This essay is dedicated to all the hardworking people of the world .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Something Even More Absurd Than the \" Breakneck 90 M/H On a Snowy Night \" ?? My Personal Experience .", "entity": [{"entity": "90 M/H", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [48, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "poqi", "entity": [{"entity": "poqi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Poster : poqi ( poqi ) , Area : Automobile .", "entity": [{"entity": "poqi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 13]}, {"entity": "poqi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Title : Something Even More Absurd Than the \" Breakneck 90 M/H On a Snowy Night \" ?? My Personal Experience .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Originating site : BBS Unknown Space ( Tue Jan 16 22:51:46 2007 ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tue Jan 16", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 49]}, {"entity": "22:51:46", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [50, 58]}, {"entity": "2007", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I have deep feelings and a lot of sympathy with the author after reading the article Breakneck 90 m/h on a Snowy Night .", "entity": [{"entity": "90 m/h", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [95, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It also reminds me of something that I experienced several years ago , also related to an airport and meeting people .", "entity": [{"entity": "several years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A couple of years ago , my neighbor approached me to borrow my car , saying he was meeting his parents at the airport .", "entity": [{"entity": "A couple of years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He also said both his wife and children wanted to go .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As his car was too small and mine was big , it could make his parents more comfortable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He added that he would only use it for one morning and would return it to me before noon .", "entity": [{"entity": "one morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "noon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [84, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although there was only a nodding acquaintance between the neighbor and me , we lived in the same apartment building after all and were both Chinese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [141, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I discussed with my wife back home and lent him the car as we thought we would not be using the car until the same afternoon .", "entity": [{"entity": "the same afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [109, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And then something happened ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At 1:00pm , the neighbor called me , saying he took his parents to a buffet and would probably not to be back until around 3:00pm .", "entity": [{"entity": "1:00pm", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [3, 9]}, {"entity": "3:00pm", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [123, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I of course agreed and asked them not to rush .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This wait lasted till 5:30pm , when the neighbor told me in a half - crying tone that there was an accident , and everyone else was intact , except his father , who was in hospital for fractures .", "entity": [{"entity": "5:30pm", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [62, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I comforted him first and asked my friend to rush me to the hospital .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My neighbor showed me the police report at the hospital , which indicated it was all my neighbor 's fault .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He clashed into a truck going straight when he made a left turn .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My car was completely damaged and had been towed away .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I forced myself to refrain from the grief of loosing my beloved car ( mine was liability - only coverage ) and asked the friend to send their family home .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And then the nightmare began .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The next day , my neighbor called me , saying his father needed to undergo an operation in hospital and asked where the money would come from", "entity": [{"entity": "The next day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I told him part would be covered by my car insurance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After a while , he called again , saying the operation charge was high and it was difficult for them to afford", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I tried my best to comfort him then and told him to think of a way slowly", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just then , a nearly crazy voice of a woman came from the other end of the line , saying her family had just saved several dozen thousand bucks for the down payment of a house ; where would they live afterwards if they spent this .", "entity": [{"entity": "several dozen thousand bucks", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [115, 143]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She also said my car was a Japanese one , which had poor safety performance and it was my car to blame for the car accident .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She added that I should pay the money because the car was mine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I hung up the phone angrily as the dialog could not go on .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My wife [ pw% ] had been persuading me aside , saying some women would easily lose mind once in fury .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She asked me to take no heed of them and let them calm down first .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [60, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I did n't take their words seriously but still felt angry .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Out of my expectation , a phone call on the third day completely changed my original idea .", "entity": [{"entity": "third", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [44, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The telephone rang just as I was about to go to work in the morning .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I thought it was a sales call and was prepared to end it perfunctorily .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unexpectedly , coming from the other end of the line was a deep and resolute voice of a middle - aged man .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said in an incontestable tone that my neighbor had a car accident as a result of borrowing my car , which traumatized them both physically and mentally and harmed their economic interests , and as the car owner , they would not sue me if I compensated them for the hospital charge and the costs of missing work hours ( three times ) , otherwise they would see me in court .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [322, 327]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He added that he was certain about the case as a lawyer in business for ten years and the compensation he requested could double in court .", "entity": [{"entity": "ten years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [72, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a great Chinese guy , how could I be scared by a few remarks of the lawyer ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [11, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I also took up the weapon of law for justice .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , I also retained a lawyer .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Out of my expectation , my lawyer solved the problem by merely making two phone calls .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [70, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One was to the police station , asking for any additional findings in the investigation report of the accident .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Of course , they would not stop it there and came to discuss with me several times , sometimes honey - tongued and sometimes threatening .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Disgusting !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here comes the old topic again , are you going to lend your car if your neighbor or friend asks .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Words sometimes have no emotions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And most importantly : the dignity and honor of the entire family ( except children ) .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I thank my Beijing friends and wish everyone a Happy New Year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "New Year", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [53, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Despair , that sinking feeling weighing on my mind , so much pressure I could n't eat , could n't sleep ; I was simply going crazy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Friends , it 's always friends who help me at key moments .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many friends got people they knew to recommend me , help me send out resumes , or call and commiserate with me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was one friend who had just got an offer , but he did n't want to go , so he recommended me to go for him , but it was way off in LA , plus the salary was n't ideal , but at least it could help me keep the legal status , so I thought I would take it .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 13]}, {"entity": "LA", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "After that the boss took me to the home office , and on the way he gave me an oral offer , and he said it would not be easy for me to come right away , that I should do the physical exam immediately and do all the paperwork , wait until after New Year 's , and the HR director would return and turn in the H1 .", "entity": [{"entity": "New Year 's", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [243, 254]}, {"entity": "H1", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [306, 308]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "So I am thanking everyone for helping me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Bu Thari", "entity": [{"entity": "Bu Thari", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What we know about Saddam Hussein in recent years is that he had changed a lot .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 33]}, {"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He had Islamic tendecies and acts which many Iraqis mentioned , saying that Saddam supported to a great extent the building of mosques centers for memorizing Koran , and charities , and the dancer 's punishment was death .", "entity": [{"entity": "Islamic", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [7, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraqis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [45, 51]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [76, 82]}, {"entity": "Koran", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [158, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I have followed Saddam Hussein , especially in recent years , and I noticed about him was that there was religion but there was injustice and coarseness .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 30]}, {"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And his punishment was unjust .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I mean , for example , the dancer would be killed after second offence .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [56, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I did not expect anyone to kill the dancer unless good would come of it , but like the most idiots his aim was correct but the method was wrong .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another example - after his son Udai harmed the Iraqi people and attacked women and other matters , Saddam ordered him to be killed .", "entity": [{"entity": "Udai", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 36]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 53]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [100, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And in fact he was fired on but survived miraculously , after being hit with several fatal shots some of which hit his spine .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is a sign that there was good in him otherwise he would not have ordered the killing of his son , his own child .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But he was not a scholar nor feared in God .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I myself heard from some people who were in Iraq about the things that Saddam Hussein used to do , and could not be reasonably done by anyone other than a good Moslem To the extent that many said of his actions that they were only to gain favor amongst the Sunnis and the religious .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 48]}, {"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [71, 85]}, {"entity": "Moslem", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [160, 166]}, {"entity": "Sunnis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [257, 263]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we judge by the appearances and his end was in line with the appearance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In his last days during the fall of Baghdad and his disappearance , an old woman or man said on TV on al - Jazeera channel that he was hiding in her house and had had his prayer mat with him and was always praying and reading the Koran .", "entity": [{"entity": "last", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [7, 11]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 43]}, {"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [102, 114]}, {"entity": "Koran", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [230, 235]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do we say no , this is hypocrisy ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bear in mind that many have said that Saddam prayed regularly especially after he was put in prison by the Rafida and their masters .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 44]}, {"entity": "Rafida", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [107, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Finally , during his hanging , the Rafida tried to distract him and keep him from saying the Creed before his death .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rafida", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They were trying everything they could but we say that God made him steadfast for the whole world to see that he died acknowledging God .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Rafida were shouting provocative words such as Muqtada and al - Sadr so that he would lose control and curse them , then they would have killed him .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rafida", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Muqtada", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 58]}, {"entity": "al - Sadr", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [63, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So they could show the clip in which there is cursing and insults from Saddam and cut the rest .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [71, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However he remained steadfast in saying the creed and was killed whilst saying it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I believe that this could n't have happened without God making him steadfast otherwise God would not have made him steadfast in it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As one of the sheikhs says , many people when they were supposed to say the creed and were being dictated the creed by those present would murmur \" Did love see drunkards ? \"", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Other people say , I have not said it while I was alive and you want me to say it when I am dying ... the truth is what is apparent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Saddam Hussein was reasonable in that he repented and turned to his creator who receives the repentance from his slave .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And he committed himself to the worship of God . And remained loyal to God .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I ask God to have mercy on him and to forgive him and to give him an ample dwelling in his paradise and guide the rest of the Ba'thists .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ba'thists", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [126, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The hot dialogue ... that went on between [ [ [ Saddam Hussein and Rumsfeld ] ] ] at the airport prison .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 62]}, {"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Washington offers Saddam a television appearance to stop the Resistance in return for his freedom .", "entity": [{"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 24]}, {"entity": "Resistance", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Minutes of the dialogue between Saddam and Rumsfeld from trusted American sources .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 38]}, {"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 51]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [65, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At the start of the conversation President Saddam appeared extremely calm .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps he was surprised that his guest was Rumsfeld , but he did not appear at all nervously tense .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Saddam Hussein : So what do you want ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Your forces have occupied the territory of the proud Iraq , you have brought down the governing regime without a legal support ,", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you have assaulted the sovereignty of an independent free sovereign country ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "you have committed crimes which history will record against you as evidence of your blood - stained civilization .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So what do you want after all that ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld ( trying to suppress his anger ) : What 's past is past , I came especially to make you a clear and specific offer and I want to hear from you a clear and definite answer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein ( mockingly ) : I thought you had come to apologize and restore power to the Iraqis .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraqis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [92, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : We have nothing to apologize for , you constituted a danger to your neighbors and tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction and practiced dictatorship over your people and so it was only natural that we extended our hand to the people of Iraq to rid them of the perils which had confronted them for more than three decades .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [252, 256]}, {"entity": "more", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [313, 317]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I know that you are ignorant of history , and I know that your president is no less ignorant but it seems that you have continued to lie to the extent that you now believe yourselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If \" by our neighbors \" you mean the Zionist Entity then we did indeed form a danger , we were preparing to liberate our ravished territory in Palestine .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Zionist Entity", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 51]}, {"entity": "Palestine", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the wish of every Arab person and not just every Iraqi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [26, 30]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [57, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For this is Arab land and its people are Arab , and the Zionists are the ones who occupied the land and came to us from all over the world with your help , yours , and that of the old imperial powers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [12, 16]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [41, 45]}, {"entity": "Zionists", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [56, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But if you meant Kuwait , I want to ask you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Did you withdraw from Kuwait or not ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : These are security issues .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Besides , there are security agreements between us and Kuwait and the other Gulf states ... we came at their request to protect them from your threats .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 61]}, {"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [76, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Is n't funny that the wolf is being entrusted with the sheep ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The people of Kuwait are an Arab people .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [14, 20]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [28, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Kuwait is Iraqi territory , therefore I ask you to read history carefully , although I am certain that you wo n't comprehend it .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuwait", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [14, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Stop from this drivel , I am offering you ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein ( interrupting ) : Before you offer me your rotten goods , I ask you did you find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or not ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [128, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld ( disconcerted ) : We have n't found them yet , but we will surely find them one day .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [86, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you deny that you had intentions to manufacture a nuclear bomb ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : We have had no weapons of mass destruction since 1991 , we were truthful when we spoke with the international inspection mission , we were truthful in our letters to Kofi Annan , you knew these facts but you were looking for any pretext to occupy Iraq and topple its legitimate authority .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [66, 70]}, {"entity": "Kofi Annan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [183, 193]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [264, 268]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : The Iraqis received us with overwhelming happiness and welcomed us , because of the practices of your bloody regime over the course of all those years in which you governed Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Iraqis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [15, 21]}, {"entity": "all those years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [146, 161]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [184, 188]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Please , Mr Rumsfeld , enough lying .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You are the ones who have opened the floodgates to cascades of blood on the soil of Iraq , you plotted against us and got some traitors to take over power over the land of the great Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 88]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [182, 186]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Those you are calling traitors have been chosen by the Iraqi people as their leaders by democratic means and free elections , something that did not take place during your rule over the country .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [66, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I found out that you had come with a troop of traitors led by Talabani ( laughs mockingly ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Talabani", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [79, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Great Iraq is being ruled by Talabani and Jaafari .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [6, 10]}, {"entity": "Talabani", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 37]}, {"entity": "Jaafari", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [42, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is n't this ridiculous ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then , which elections are you talking about ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it permissible for what you call free elections to be held under your occupation of our country ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr Rumsfeld , we have learned from history that the occupier will not bring except his assistants and lackeys , and you want , after all that , to convince me that the people of Iraq enjoy freedom and democracy ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 11]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [178, 182]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You are truly delusional .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld ( barely able to contain his anger ) : You are isolated and do not know the facts of what is happening on the outside .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Iraqi people have been liberated from your oppression , if they saw you or any of your men in the street they would kill you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I challenge you to announce your location in Iraq if you can .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the Iraqi resistance found out your whereabouts you would not be able to get out alive .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [7, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I want to give a word of advice to your \" dumb \" president , you must pass it on to him , and it is that he should save what is left of his soldiers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Death surrounds them everywhere and history will not be merciful to him .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : I came to talk with you about the terrorist operations which your men are instigating and carrying out .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Your men have recently carried out an ignoble operation aimed at the Abu Ghraib prison where they injured and killed more than fifty Americans and also killed a number of prisoners imprisoned under various charges .", "entity": [{"entity": "Abu Ghraib", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [69, 79]}, {"entity": "more than fifty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [117, 132]}, {"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [133, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Your men are employing terrorists from all parts of the world and they are threatening the democratic process in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : What is it you want exactly ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : I am making you one offer , that you are released and choose for yourself a place of exile in any country you wish on the condition that you appear on television to announce your condemnation of the terrorism and to ask your men to stop these practices .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [27, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Have you obtained the consent of your president to this offer ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Yes , this offer was agreed to at a session in which the President , his deputy , the Secretary of State and the head of the CIA took part and I was commissioned to inform you of this offer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "CIA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [136, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : It is a very low price .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld ( excited ) : We are prepared to include elements close to you in power .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : And what else ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : We will offer you considerable financial assistance and will look after your and your family 's security in the country you choose .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Do you want to hear my conditions ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Yes , that would be nice .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein ( in language beaming with pride and arrogance ) I want you first of all .. to set me a timetable for the withdrawal from Iraq that your government will commit itself to it in front of the world , and for you to begin the withdrawal operation immediately .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [75, 80]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [137, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I ask , secondly , .. for the immediate release of all the Iraqi and Arab detainees in the prisons you have set up or in those where you have shackled the freedom of tens of thousands of honorable Iraqis .", "entity": [{"entity": "secondly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [8, 16]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [59, 64]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [69, 73]}, {"entity": "tens of thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [166, 183]}, {"entity": "Iraqis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [197, 203]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thirdly , I ask you .. for the undertaking that full compensation will be offered for the material losses which the Iraqi people have suffered through your aggression on our country since the Mother of All Battles in 1991 until this present day .", "entity": [{"entity": "Thirdly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [116, 121]}, {"entity": "the Mother of All Battles", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [188, 213]}, {"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [217, 221]}, {"entity": "this present day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [228, 244]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I will accept the assistance of an international and Arab committee in estimating these losses .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [53, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fourthly , I ask that you produce the money which your men looted from the treasuries of Iraq and its oil especially this criminal Bremmer and his henchmen from the traitors and renegades .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fourthly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 93]}, {"entity": "Bremmer", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [131, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And , fifthly , I ask for .. the return of the antiquities which you have stolen and handed over to the antiquities mafia , for these are priceless treasures because they bear the history of Iraq and its civilization .", "entity": [{"entity": "fifthly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [6, 13]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [191, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Your country is no older than a few hundred years .", "entity": [{"entity": "a few hundred years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "True , you do not have neither a civilization nor history , but all that can not excuse your thefts and your hatred of Iraq 's civilization and Iraq 's riches .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 123]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [144, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sixthly , I ask that you hand me the weapons of mass destruction if you have found them , bring back to life all the martyrs you have killed , and return the integrity of the glorious Iraqi women which you have robbed .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sixthly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [184, 189]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Is this some kind of joke ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : No , this is just the bitter truth , which you know very well .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr Rumsfeld , you have committed the greatest crime in history against a peaceful Arab state .. we met each other in the eighties .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [3, 11]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [82, 86]}, {"entity": "the eighties", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [117, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you remember your offers ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Let us forget the past , we are in the process of re-evaluating our position on you and on the many forces which displayed hostility to us in the past .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "the past", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [25, 33]}, {"entity": "the past", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [153, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have decided to hold a dialogue with the moderate Islamists .", "entity": [{"entity": "Islamists", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [53, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have no objection to their arrival in power via the ballot box .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But more importantly , we have decided to open channels of dialogue with \" terrorist \" organizations such as Hamas and Jihad and Hezbollah who are loyal to Iran , and other fundamentalist organizations in the whole world .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hamas", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [109, 114]}, {"entity": "Jihad", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [119, 124]}, {"entity": "Hezbollah", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [129, 138]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [156, 160]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And we even have a project to get in touch with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan to discuss its participation in power in return for disarming .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taliban", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 59]}, {"entity": "Afghanistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Then you have begun to re-think your mistaken methodology .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : It is a natural development of things , we are trying to spread democracy to all countries and all autocratic movements .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : You would be successful if you would tell the truth .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I know the reality of your goals .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you were really sincere you would begin straightaway , you and your allies , to withdraw from Iraq , and you also have to back down from your position of supporting Israel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 101]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [168, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I know that your president is stubborn and obstinate and not sincere .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : He is a democratically elected president and not a bloodthirsty ruler like you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Terrorism is your trade and deceit your method .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : This proposal is an historic chance for you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We will release you and will consult with you in everything concerning governance issues in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you reject this offer then the opportunity will not be repeated .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I am not looking for opportunities , I am not looking for a way to save my neck from the gallows which you have set up for the whole of Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [153, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If I wanted that I would have accepted the Russian offer and saved my two sons and my grandson from martyrdom .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 50]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [70, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do not know what the fate of my family and my daughters and grandchildren is , but be sure that I am concerned for every Iraqi citizen and the future of the Great Iraq more than I am concerned with myself and my family .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [123, 128]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [165, 169]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You have previously made me an offered before this through your men that I say the weapons of mass destruction were smuggled to Syria , and you said that the price was my release .", "entity": [{"entity": "Syria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [128, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I refused and I repeat the refusal once again .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : I do not want a refusal from you , I want you to think about it .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are currently re-evaluating our positions , we want to stop the bloodshed on both sides and so our offer is made from the point of strength and not from the point of weakness .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We asked Jalal Talabani to make a statement in which he denies any intention to execute you as a sign of good will from us .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jalal Talabani", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are ready to review our position completely on the entire political process in Iraq and we will hold a dialogue with you and with your men on this matter .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussain : Are you ready to withdraw or not ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussain", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : We could discuss re-deployment , our forces have prepared bases for long - term stay .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We could withdraw from the streets and the towns but we will stay in the bases for a some time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : Then you want a new lackey to be added to this queue of lackeys .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No Mr. Rumsfeld .. do n't forget that you are speaking with Saddam Hussein , the president of the state of Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 15]}, {"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 74]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : But you have lost power .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I have only honor left and honor can not be sold or bought .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : But life has a value that is priceless .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : There is no value to a life without honor , and you robbed Iraq of its honor when you desecrated its land .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We will get our honor back whether Saddam Hussein survives or becomes a martyr .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : Your followers with whom we entered into a dialogue have told us that the decisions will be yours , first and last .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [111, 116]}, {"entity": "last", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [121, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Were they expecting your reaction ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : For sure , they know that Saddam Hussain can not back down at the expense of his nation and its honor .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Saddam Hussain", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : History will hold you responsible for the blood which is being spilled in Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Saddam Hussein : On the contrary , history will judge you because of your crimes ..", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I warned you in advance when I said to you that you will commit suicide on the walls of Baghdad , and here you are paying the price .", "entity": [{"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I ask you to go to London and read the records of the British Foreign Office to find out some of the characteristics of the struggle of the Iraqi people against your British friends whose mistakes you are repeating and making them participate with you .", "entity": [{"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 25]}, {"entity": "the British Foreign Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 76]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [140, 145]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [166, 173]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Iraqi people are an obstinate people and do not fear death ... the Resistance is stronger than you imagine and therefore I predict there 'll be more .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "Resistance", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "End of the text of the meeting minutes ... the source", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "May your steps in doing good be like someone walking on sand ... he makes no sound but his tracks are obvious .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "MOTAAWEN@HOTMAIL.COM", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Over the sun", "entity": [{"entity": "Over the sun", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "http://alsaha.fares.net/sahat?128@96.GdrOcqF3AIR.21@.3ba9a044", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Details of the minutes of the meeting between Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein at the Airport Prison .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 54]}, {"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 73]}, {"entity": "the Airport Prison", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [77, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Amateur", "entity": [{"entity": "The Amateur", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rumsfeld : We have nothing to apologize for .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You were a danger to your neighbors and tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you practiced dictatorship over your people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and so it was natural that we extended our hand to the people of Iraq to rid them of the perils which had confronted them for more than three decades .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 69]}, {"entity": "more", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [126, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And did Rumsfeld free Iraq from dangers ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 16]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He is really delusional ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I have reservations about what appeared in these minutes ... because I think it unlikely that what happened at that meeting would leak out this easily ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I do not believe that Rumsfeld would meet Saddam unless Saddam himself made signs ... the important thing is that the expression quoted above tells of a reality that can not be but accepted ...", "entity": [{"entity": "Rumsfeld", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 34]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 52]}, {"entity": "Saddam", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "May God the Great forgive me .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My brother , Over the Sun . I apologize for repeating the article , and thank you for participating .", "entity": [{"entity": "Over the Sun", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Cooperator", "entity": [{"entity": "Cooperator", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My brother Amateur Thank you for participating .", "entity": [{"entity": "Amateur", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He disdained death and was not bothered by it , challenging the provocations of the imperialist donkeys with full self - control , repeating the words \" There is no God but God and Mohammed is the messenger of God . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Mohammed", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [181, 189]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After the sentence was carried out and his body was dangling in the air , his shoes were above the heads of the scum , the imperialist donkeys , those on whose backs the people of the cross are riding and who share the trenches with them to carry out the most despicable , vile and contemptible crime the Islamic world has know in our current age .", "entity": [{"entity": "Islamic", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [305, 312]}, {"entity": "current age", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [335, 346]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Saddam Hussein : I have nothing left but honor and honor can not be bought and sold .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saddam Hussein", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Collaborator", "entity": [{"entity": "The Collaborator", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My brother Qais , the Son of his Father , I thank you for your post and the addition , may God take care of you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Qais , the Son of his Father", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The success of al - Jazeera and the failure of Hebrew , the film \" The Death Squads \" for downloading .", "entity": [{"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 27]}, {"entity": "Hebrew", "entity_type": "language", "pos": [47, 53]}, {"entity": "\" The Death Squads \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [65, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The al - Jazeera channel broadcasted the film \" The Death Squads \" with subtitles , as it was previously shown on the British Channel 4 .", "entity": [{"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 16]}, {"entity": "\" The Death Squads \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [46, 66]}, {"entity": "the British Channel 4", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [114, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this film the role of the Shiites in our beloved Iraq becomes clearer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shiites", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [29, 36]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Hebrew channel , I meant the Al - Arabiya channel , did not dare , to broadcast this film or even mention it and the reasons are famously unknown ..", "entity": [{"entity": "Hebrew", "entity_type": "language", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is a unique precedent for al - Jazeera ..", "entity": [{"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are many questions , amongst them the timing of its being shown at this very time , following the conflict in interests between the Sons of Monkeys and Pigs and the Sons of Temporary Marriages ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I leave you with the film which saddens the heart and makes it bleed ....", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the link to the film ..", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Islam Diary : A leader of the Shiite death squads in Sadr City , east of Baghdad , acknowledged that the Mahdi Army militia was involved in killing operations of Arab Sunni men after kidnapping them , despite their relatives having paid the blood money demanded by the hostage - takers in return for their being freed .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Islam Diary", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Shiite", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [34, 40]}, {"entity": "Sadr City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 66]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 84]}, {"entity": "Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [109, 119]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [166, 170]}, {"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [171, 176]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Speaking at the same time about an Iranian role in the financing and support of the war of genocide against the Sunnis . \" Fadil \" , a commander in the Mahdi Army tells how he had followed three Arab Sunni men for a period of some weeks and detained them when they were crossing the Karada bridge , after having informed an Iraqi army road block close to the area that he was pursuing \" terrorists \" , then attacked the car of the group in question .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iranian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 42]}, {"entity": "Sunnis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [112, 118]}, {"entity": "Fadil", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [123, 128]}, {"entity": "the Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [148, 162]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [189, 194]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [195, 199]}, {"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [200, 205]}, {"entity": "some weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [226, 236]}, {"entity": "the Karada bridge", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [279, 296]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [324, 329]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He also told the British Guardian that he took the three men to Sadr City where his group had interrogated them then executed them , indicating that the members of the Mahdi Army usually demanded a ransom from the families of the hostages in return for freeing their relatives , and would liquidate them anyway after they receive the ransom .", "entity": [{"entity": "the British Guardian", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 33]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [51, 56]}, {"entity": "Sadr City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 73]}, {"entity": "the Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [164, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The newspaper quoted another commander in the Mahdi Army as saying ; \" We have taken 10 Sunnis hostages , we will get a ransom for five of them , then we will kill them all . In every major hostage - taking operation we get 50 thousand dollars , \" and he considered it to be the best business a person could be running in Baghdad now !", "entity": [{"entity": "the Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 56]}, {"entity": "10", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [85, 87]}, {"entity": "Sunnis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 94]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [131, 135]}, {"entity": "50 thousand dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [224, 243]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [322, 329]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The newspaper described \" Fadil \" as a valuable commander to this squad because he is a Shiite who grew up in the Sunni area south of Baghdad .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fadil", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 31]}, {"entity": "Shiite", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 94]}, {"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [114, 119]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [134, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He speaks in the Sunni dialect and carries an identity card from the Yusufiyah Sunni village .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 22]}, {"entity": "Yusufiyah", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 78]}, {"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [79, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He was quoted as saying : \" I can enter the Sunni areas without anyone knowing that I am a Shiite . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 49]}, {"entity": "Shiite", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [91, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It pointed out that Fadil and the likes are responsible for the dozens of corpses which are being found daily in Baghdad .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fadil", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 25]}, {"entity": "dozens", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [64, 70]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This means that the Baghdad security plan will not be successful unless the Americans control squads such as these to put breaks on the civil war .", "entity": [{"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 27]}, {"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [76, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Fadil \" was quoted as saying that the Mahdi Army is resorting in its operations to reinforcements from Iraqi army units commanded by its members or sympathizers , and confirmed that all the police belong to the Shiite militia .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fadil", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 7]}, {"entity": "the Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [36, 50]}, {"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [105, 110]}, {"entity": "Shiite", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [213, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He added that the Mahdi Army is receiving logistic and military support from Iran and that they are not encountering any problems in getting weapons through to Sadr City because they usually present a letter to each of the checkpoints they pass through .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Mahdi Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 28]}, {"entity": "Iran", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 81]}, {"entity": "Sadr City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [160, 169]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Son of the Interior", "entity": [{"entity": "Son of the Interior", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The Al - Jazeera channel is superior to the Al - Arabiya in many areas \" \" even though it has some bad faults \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [6, 18]}, {"entity": "the Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" ______________ al - Mu'tasim ____________ \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Abu Bakr al - Razi", "entity": [{"entity": "Abu Bakr al - Razi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I swear !!!!!", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You are like a Zubairi Chairman of the Club", "entity": [{"entity": "Zubairi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 22]}, {"entity": "Chairman of the Club", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "[ QUOTE", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You are like a Zubairi [ /quote ]", "entity": [{"entity": "Zubairi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Source of the Word", "entity": [{"entity": "Source of the Word", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "God bless you , my brother , Son of the Interior", "entity": [{"entity": "Son of the Interior", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [29, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for it being superior , it is superior to the Hebrew , I mean the 'Arabiya channel and there is no competition between them .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hebrew", "entity_type": "language", "pos": [49, 55]}, {"entity": "'Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is the best one at conveying the incidents on the ground in Iraq , and has not covered many of the facts .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As regards some of the faults they are many - especially its view of Saudi Arabia ..", "entity": [{"entity": "Saudi Arabia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As we have said this is a unique precedent for it ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Glare", "entity": [{"entity": "The Glare", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Brother Source of the Word , a very good morning to you .", "entity": [{"entity": "Source of the Word", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 26]}, {"entity": "morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [41, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This Zionist - American and Safavid evil triangle has nothing else to do but put an end to the Sunnis and the Book so that there is no one to resist them .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zionist - American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [5, 23]}, {"entity": "Safavid", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "Sunnis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [95, 101]}, {"entity": "Book", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [110, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But however much they try , Baghdad will remain , by God 's decree , the capital of the Islamic caliphate .", "entity": [{"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 35]}, {"entity": "Islamic", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will return , God permitting !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The victories of the Mujahideen are obvious and America and its Safavid henchmen are no longer able to hide this fact .", "entity": [{"entity": "America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 55]}, {"entity": "Safavid", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [64, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "God be praised and blessed and we ask Him the Almighty on high to empower the Mujahideen to be victorious and strong ; He has the power and ability to do so .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unique of His Kind", "entity": [{"entity": "Unique of His Kind", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My brother Source of the Word . The truth is that I saw the film and it was really terrifying to the extent that I thought I was watching a fictional film ... because I could not imagine the extent of the Safavid hatred and criminality .", "entity": [{"entity": "Source of the Word", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 29]}, {"entity": "Safavid", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [205, 212]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Despite what I had already imagined regarding their hatred and criminality nevertheless I did not imagine them reaching this level of hatred and criminality .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Al - Jazeera deserves every appreciation for showing this film to the Arab viewer .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [70, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But as for the Al - Arabiya channel , as long as al - Rashed is its director I wash my hands of it completely .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 27]}, {"entity": "al - Rashed", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Greetings .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Abu Juri", "entity": [{"entity": "Abu Juri", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Permit me to differ .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Al - Arabiya channel in a short time has pulled the rug out from under the lying al - Jazeera channel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 16]}, {"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the al - Jazeera channel has , as you say , shown a tape about the Shiites then it , in contrast , has not presented more important tapes about the treacherous government of Qatar .", "entity": [{"entity": "al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [7, 19]}, {"entity": "Shiites", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [70, 77]}, {"entity": "Qatar", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [177, 182]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The last of these tapes or news is Peres ' visit to Doha and the warm reception which he and his delegation enjoyed .", "entity": [{"entity": "last", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "Peres", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 40]}, {"entity": "Doha", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is no channel without faults .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Al - Arabiya is the best of them and it is more credible than Al - Jazeera whose first aim , as we all know , is to attack Saudi Arabia and to interfere in our country 's affairs , even the private ones .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 16]}, {"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [66, 78]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [85, 90]}, {"entity": "Saudi Arabia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [127, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I wish , even if it was only once , to watch one of those al - Jazeera 's programs in which there is a lot of shouting and fighting , talking about the Al - Udeid Base , or the Israeli trade office and what the Israelis are doing exactly .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [45, 48]}, {"entity": "those al - Jazeera 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 73]}, {"entity": "the Al - Udeid Base", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [148, 167]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [177, 184]}, {"entity": "Israelis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [211, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are hidden matters in the state of Qatar and its government .", "entity": [{"entity": "Qatar", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Al - Jazeera tries to cover up these failings by attacking other states and governments .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Try again perhaps we can understand what you wrote ...", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By God 's will I have just understood it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "May God grant you long life , my esteemed brother Glare .", "entity": [{"entity": "Glare", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You are right in what you wrote .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And victory is coming by God 's leave .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Salem", "entity": [{"entity": "Salem", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Neither Al - Arabiya nor Al - Jazeera --", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 20]}, {"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [25, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How I wish success to the Al - Majd channels , as they are truly the most pure and credible media channels on the face of the Earth .", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Majd", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 35]}, {"entity": "Earth", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [126, 131]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for the rest of the channels they serve dubious agendas .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If they hit the spot once they miss a thousand times .", "entity": [{"entity": "a thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [36, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\"!!\" we have al - Razi here ; who is his equal \"!!\"", "entity": [{"entity": "al - Razi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" A scholar and a genius , an inventor and discoverer \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Abu Bakr ! You said nothing new \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Abu Bakr", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" _______________ Al - Mu'tasim _________ \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Al - Mu'tasim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the Source of the Word .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Source of the Word", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "May God grant you long life , my brother Unique , welcome back !", "entity": [{"entity": "Unique", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [41, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Al - Arabiya started as a rival to Al - Jazeera but it failed and the reason is famously unknown ... you find it in the word Hebrew", "entity": [{"entity": "The Al - Arabiya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "Al - Jazeera", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 51]}, {"entity": "Hebrew", "entity_type": "language", "pos": [129, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so the news started and the competition was won with make - up and women 's concerns .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "May you stay in good health ..", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I just got back from the gym .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "oh good .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "uh-huh .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How 's it going ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "oh pretty well .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was really crowded today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "yeah .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I kind of assumed everyone would be at the shore .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was wrong .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Well it 's the middle of the week or whatever", "entity": [{"entity": "the middle of the week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [11, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it 's the fourth of July .", "entity": [{"entity": "the fourth of July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [10, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "%mm .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "People have to work tomorrow .", "entity": [{"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you have to work tomorrow ?", "entity": [{"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Did you have off yesterday ?", "entity": [{"entity": "yesterday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [17, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "oh that 's good .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And I was paid too .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "oh .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it paid today ?", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [11, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But %uh", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "yeah ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "so the gym 's going well .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I still need to go more often .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But %um Anyway , %uh One of the main reasons that I 've been such a pathetic , %uh , correspondent has been work .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "So , %um , I found a simple modification of the original formula , which unfortunately makes the solutions horrendously nasty . And in most cases , %uh , insoluble .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "which , %um , is kind of interesting considering that that 's not really my thing . . Indeed . Indeed . being an experimentalist , not a theorist .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "%um , actually , I 'm not sure if we 're shooting for op- ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But , %uh , we want to write a letter , and then a couple articles .", "entity": [{"entity": "a couple", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [49, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "%hm . impressive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "So Cool . Cool . that 's mostly the sort of stuff that I 'm spending a lot of time on now . %um", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "%uh , no , it 's definitely worth doing . %um ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "and I would have been spending more time on it if it were n't for %uh dealing with the burglary issues oh yeah but that I 've been dealing with .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So are you still living in that house in the middle of the park .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The first time they broke in , what they stole was just bizarre ,", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "mostly worthless stuff .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And , %uh %huh the most worthwhile thing as far as monetary value went that they stole was the pre-amplifier of my stereo . Unfortunately , because it 's a nice pre-amplifier ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But , that 's dealt with at least .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And so %uh , that 's yeah at least dealt with .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At least Well that would make sense during the summer %uh according to the stipulations of my fellowship , I can actually earn money during the summer .", "entity": [{"entity": "the summer", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "%uh but it 's a lot less expensive if we do it that way than if we actually make my parents in law pay it ,", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "the Dutch have such high taxes on those", "entity": [{"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "%um , depends on what you guys want to see .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But then again I 'm not sure that Kim would be interested in seeing Shape Headquarters and you know all that kind of stuff . those military things .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 37]}, {"entity": "Shape Headquarters", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [68, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The FBI says when they questioned him , he told them of another plot to bomb an American ship in Yemen , where the `` USS Cole '' was ultimately attacked .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [80, 88]}, {"entity": "Yemen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "the `` USS Cole ''", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [111, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Here 's your national correspondent , John M Wethy .", "entity": [{"entity": "John M Wethy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He told the FBI he participated in the attack under direction of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden .", "entity": [{"entity": "FBI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Osama Bin Laden", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [82, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Back to the Middle East tonight .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [8, 23]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [24, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "the truce brokered by President Clinton between Israelis and Palestinians allegedly is in tatters .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 39]}, {"entity": "Israelis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 56]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [61, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Israel says it may abandon the peace negotiations altogether .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "ABC 's Bob Woodruff is in the Palestinian territories tonight .", "entity": [{"entity": "ABC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Bob Woodruff", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 19]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 41]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [54, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Violence ripped through almost every major Palestinian town today .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 54]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [60, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As is so often the case , much of the trouble started with funerals that escalated into fury .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "This was supposed to be the day the truce went into effect , when both sides would call off the violence , but that clearly has not happened , and here in the streets , peace seems very unlikely .", "entity": [{"entity": "the day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [24, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tonight on Israeli television , Prime Minister Barak said we can not go on as if nothing happened , and if the demonstrations do n't stop , Barak 's spokesman said Israel will continue to use live ammunition .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "Barak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "Barak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [140, 145]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [164, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They leave no other way for us but to respond with fire , we 'll have to do this .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Egypt called the emergency summit to declare support for the Palestinians in the wake of three weeks of violence that has left at least 106 people dead , almost all of them Palestinian .", "entity": [{"entity": "Egypt", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [61, 73]}, {"entity": "three weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [89, 100]}, {"entity": "at least 106", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [127, 139]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [173, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Violence has abated somewhat since the deal was struck at Sharm el - Sheikh two days ago , but Arab governments are under pressure from their own citizens to take a tough stance against Israel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sharm el - Sheikh", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 75]}, {"entity": "two days ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [76, 88]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [95, 99]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [186, 192]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "James Drummond , covering the Arab summit in Cairo for the Financial Times .", "entity": [{"entity": "James Drummond", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 34]}, {"entity": "Cairo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}, {"entity": "the Financial Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "So this is a preparatory exercise to reach some sort of agreement beforehand .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Well , thank you very much for the update .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "James Drummond , correspondent for the Financial Times of London speaking to us from Cairo .", "entity": [{"entity": "James Drummond", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "the Financial Times of London", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 64]}, {"entity": "Cairo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At home , President Vojislav Kostunica says that he intends to promote democracy and free speech , but Kostunica just might have second thoughts , once a theater group that roasted his predecessor over the coals starts turning him on a spit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Vojislav Kostunica", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 38]}, {"entity": "Kostunica", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [103, 112]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [129, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "These days at almost every street corner in central Belgrade , there is a stall selling compact discs with protest songs against the former regime , and the most popular tune blaring out of the speakers goes like this , `` attention , attention , last train for Serbia via day stop Kosovo and The Hague is departing with a ten hour delay .", "entity": [{"entity": "These days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Belgrade", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 60]}, {"entity": "Serbia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [262, 268]}, {"entity": "day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [273, 276]}, {"entity": "Kosovo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [282, 288]}, {"entity": "The Hague", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [293, 302]}, {"entity": "ten hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [323, 331]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Writer Vojislav Jonetic says he is confident the new Yugoslav government will provide plenty of fresh material .", "entity": [{"entity": "Vojislav Jonetic", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 23]}, {"entity": "Yugoslav", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [53, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Index Theater is planning a huge comeback now with a series of shows in Belgrade , but even though Milosevic is under de facto house arrest in Belgrade , he is very much present on the repertoire of political humors , says his impersonator , Dragewbo Yubitrich .", "entity": [{"entity": "Index Theater", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Belgrade", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 80]}, {"entity": "Milosevic", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [99, 108]}, {"entity": "Belgrade", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 151]}, {"entity": "Dragewbo Yubitrich", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [242, 260]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In what may have been a ripple effect of the Middle East crisis , an explosion today killed at least four sailors on a US Navy destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden .", "entity": [{"entity": "Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [45, 56]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [79, 84]}, {"entity": "at least four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [92, 105]}, {"entity": "US Navy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [119, 126]}, {"entity": "Yemeni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [144, 150]}, {"entity": "Aden", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [159, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The blast , which occurred just after noon local time in Yemen , ripped a 20 x 40 foot gash in the USS Cole , a state - of - the - art destroyer that had stopped in Aden to refuel before joining the carrier George Washington in the Persian Gulf .", "entity": [{"entity": "just after noon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [27, 42]}, {"entity": "Yemen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 62]}, {"entity": "20", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 76]}, {"entity": "40 foot", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [79, 86]}, {"entity": "the USS Cole", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [95, 107]}, {"entity": "Aden", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [165, 169]}, {"entity": "George Washington", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [207, 224]}, {"entity": "the Persian Gulf", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [228, 244]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Speaking at the Cole 's home base in Norfolk , Virginia , Admiral John Foley said that the Navy is investigating the incident .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cole", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [16, 20]}, {"entity": "Norfolk", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 44]}, {"entity": "Virginia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 55]}, {"entity": "John Foley", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [66, 76]}, {"entity": "Navy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The officials said that reports from the scene , including one from an Army officer working in Aden Harbor , suggested that a small rubber craft that was helping the Cole dock came alongside the destroyer and caused the blast .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 62]}, {"entity": "Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 75]}, {"entity": "Aden Harbor", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [95, 106]}, {"entity": "Cole", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [166, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many , including retired Admiral Eugene Carroll , are suspicious that the small boat may have been loaded with high - power explosives and that the attack was planned .", "entity": [{"entity": "Eugene Carroll", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "While both the Pentagon and the Justice Department today dispatched teams of experts to Yemen to investigate the explosion , Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged caution saying it was too early to jump to any conclusions .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pentagon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 23]}, {"entity": "the Justice Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 50]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 56]}, {"entity": "Yemen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Still , she promised that the United States would take appropriate action if terrorists were found to be behind the blast , a sentiment echoed later in the day by President Clinton .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 43]}, {"entity": "later in the day", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [143, 159]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [173, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Bruce Hoffman is the director of the Rand Corporation 's Washington office .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bruce Hoffman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "the Rand Corporation 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 56]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We have seen often in the past how violence and conflict and tensions in the Middle East often embroil the United States .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [73, 88]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One only has to recall the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 , also a month before presidential election , also at a time when Israel was involving suitable ferment at that point in Lebanon now with the Palestinians , where the United States was also attempting actively to provide some stabilizing influence and unfortunately and tragically got caught up in the maelstrom and that seems to be the salient fact of this attack .", "entity": [{"entity": "US Marine", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [42, 51]}, {"entity": "Lebanon", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 71]}, {"entity": "1983", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [75, 79]}, {"entity": "a month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [87, 94]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [146, 152]}, {"entity": "Lebanon", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [201, 208]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [222, 234]}, {"entity": "the United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [243, 260]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "On Yemeni TV today the country 's President expressed his heart - felt condolences to those who were killed and injured , but denied that the explosion on board the cole was caused by terrorists , although , admits Mohammed Al - Qadhi , editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in the capital Sana , anti-American sentiment has been running high in Yemen because of events in the Middle East .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yemeni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [3, 9]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "cole", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [165, 169]}, {"entity": "Mohammed Al - Qadhi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [215, 234]}, {"entity": "Yemen Observer", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [251, 265]}, {"entity": "Sana", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [291, 295]}, {"entity": "anti-American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [298, 311]}, {"entity": "Yemen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [347, 352]}, {"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [374, 389]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Welcome to another hour of news and information here on the Voice of America .", "entity": [{"entity": "another hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [11, 23]}, {"entity": "the Voice of America", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The deals were signed as Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded his talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [25, 32]}, {"entity": "Vladimir Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 57]}, {"entity": "Indian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 89]}, {"entity": "New Delhi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "They also agreed to form a joint working group for mutual concerns on terrorism .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He said exactly what the Indians wanted to hear , which is that the dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan should be solved bilaterally and that there should be no outside interference , as he put it in this question .", "entity": [{"entity": "Indians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [25, 32]}, {"entity": "Kashmir", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 88]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now this is something the Indians have been saying all along .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "This is another thing that the Indians were glad to hear him say , and he also said that both India and Russia suffer from the same sort of terrorism , as he put it , referring of course to the separatist militancies in Chechnya and Russia and in Jammu and Kashmir .", "entity": [{"entity": "Indians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 38]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 99]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [104, 110]}, {"entity": "Chechnya", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [220, 228]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [233, 239]}, {"entity": "Jammu", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [247, 252]}, {"entity": "Kashmir", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [257, 264]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So on balance I do n't think that the Indians heard anything from Mr. Putin that they did not want to hear .", "entity": [{"entity": "Indians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [38, 45]}, {"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Russia has very little influence with Pakistan , but of course Russia supplies India with 70 % of its military hardware and that was of course the second pillar here of Mr. Putin 's visit , which was to finalize some very substantial arms deals .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Pakistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 46]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 69]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 84]}, {"entity": "70 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [90, 94]}, {"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [173, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , we 're hearing that those deals have now been finalized , that Russia will sell India 300 tanks , T - 90 tanks , very advanced tanks , that Russia will also sell to India some Sukoi - 30 bombers , fighter - bombers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 79]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 95]}, {"entity": "300", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [96, 99]}, {"entity": "T - 90", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [108, 114]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 156]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [175, 180]}, {"entity": "Sukoi - 30", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [186, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are going to allow India to assemble about 140 of these bombers here in India , and they are also going to finalize a deal whereby India will acquire the Admiral Gorshkov .", "entity": [{"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 29]}, {"entity": "about 140", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 51]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 82]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 141]}, {"entity": "Gorshkov", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [167, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's an old Russian aircraft carrier that India has wanted to get for some time because India only has one other aircraft carrier , and this carrier in particular would allow the Indian Navy to extend its strategic strength much farther than it currently can now .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [15, 22]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 96]}, {"entity": "the Indian Navy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [178, 193]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So indeed Russia does have quite a bit of influence here .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These ties have gone way back , nearly 40 years , and they were strengthened considerably by this visit .", "entity": [{"entity": "nearly 40 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact both countries have now agreed to combat what they call terrorism with joint groups .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Mr. Putin 's visit is the first by a Russian leader in seven years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [26, 31]}, {"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [37, 44]}, {"entity": "seven years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Russian President was supposed to visit India as early as 97 - 1998 , but of course Boris Yeltsin 's health problems got in the way of that , and then of course , Mr. Yeltsin 's abrupt resignation last year another visit and then the subsequent election campaign and inauguration of Vladimir Putin took some time , so it 's been put off for a couple of years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Russian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 45]}, {"entity": "97", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 60]}, {"entity": "1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 67]}, {"entity": "Boris Yeltsin 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [84, 100]}, {"entity": "Yeltsin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [167, 174]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [197, 206]}, {"entity": "Vladimir Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [283, 297]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "That 's an interesting question because Vladimir Putin on Wednesday addressed the Indian Parliament just as Bill Clinton had done six months ago , and I think it 's safe to say that Mr. Putin actually probably accomplished more than Mr. Clinton did in the hard concrete terms of arms sales and that sort of thing , but it was Mr. Clinton that stole the Indian lawmakers ' hearts .", "entity": [{"entity": "Vladimir Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 54]}, {"entity": "Wednesday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 67]}, {"entity": "the Indian Parliament", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 99]}, {"entity": "Bill Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [108, 120]}, {"entity": "six months ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [130, 144]}, {"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [186, 191]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [237, 244]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [330, 337]}, {"entity": "Indian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [353, 359]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course you will recall when he spoke to the parliament there was an ecstatic welcome for him .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "There was none of that for Mr. Putin , but he did receive a very warm welcome , although most ordinary Indians who were actually rather captivated by Mr. Clinton 's visit did not really pay much attention to Mr. Putin 's visit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 36]}, {"entity": "Indians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [103, 110]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [154, 161]}, {"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [212, 217]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact his visit has somewhat been ignored and in fact the main news story here in India has been sort of a local controversy over the roll - back of fuel prices rather than Mr. Putin 's visit , but he did do what he had to do and he certainly strengthened ties in a strategic sense between Russia and India .", "entity": [{"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 89]}, {"entity": "Putin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [179, 184]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [292, 298]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [303, 308]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's VOA correspondent Jim Teeple .", "entity": [{"entity": "VOA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 11]}, {"entity": "Jim Teeple", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Diplomats and analysts have commented that a joint investigation into the attack may in fact strengthen ties between the world super power and the poor , but strategic Arab state .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arab", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [168, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "US and Yemeni officials say they believe Islamic militants may have carried out the bombing .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "Yemeni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [7, 13]}, {"entity": "Islamic", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [41, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Dave Gavlak for VOA News , Cairo .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dave Gavlak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "VOA News", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 24]}, {"entity": "Cairo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "President Clinton has told a memorial service for the victims of the deadly bomb attack on the USS Cole that justice will prevail .", "entity": [{"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 17]}, {"entity": "the USS Cole", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [91, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Commenting on the report , UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Danilo Turk told reporters the principle of national sovereignty does not preclude support for democracy .", "entity": [{"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 29]}, {"entity": "Danilo Turk", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [80, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Reports from China say North Korean President Kim Jong Il is planning to announce economic reforms for his country .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "North Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [23, 35]}, {"entity": "Kim Jong Il", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Kim visited a center for high technology business in Shanghai on Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kim", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 65]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is expected to return to the White House late Tuesday for more talks with President Clinton .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Yasser Arafat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 32]}, {"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [58, 73]}, {"entity": "late Tuesday", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [74, 86]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [117, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "A White House spokesman said the talks are aimed at establishing the parameters for resuming Israeli - Palestinian negotiations .", "entity": [{"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [2, 13]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [93, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Palestinians have demanded clarification of US proposals for achieving a final peace accord .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Egypt 's President Hosni Mubarak has called on Israeli leaders to stop talking about war and to make peace with the Palestinians and Syria .", "entity": [{"entity": "Egypt", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Hosni Mubarak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 32]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [47, 54]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [116, 128]}, {"entity": "Syria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [133, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In an interview with Israeli Television Monday Mr. Mubarak said Israel knows what is necessary for peace , the return of lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "Monday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 46]}, {"entity": "Mubarak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 58]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 70]}, {"entity": "the 1967 Middle East war", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [139, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In another interview Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the Israelis and Palestinians had made real progress Red Sea resort of Taba , but Prime Minister Ehud Barak has suspended contacts with the Palestinians until after the February 6th election .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 32]}, {"entity": "Yasser Arafat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 53]}, {"entity": "Israelis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [63, 71]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [76, 88]}, {"entity": "Red Sea", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [112, 119]}, {"entity": "Taba", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [130, 134]}, {"entity": "Ehud Barak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [156, 166]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [199, 211]}, {"entity": "February 6th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [228, 240]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Correspondent Laurie Cassman has a report .", "entity": [{"entity": "Laurie Cassman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The meeting was expected later this week in Stockholm , but Mr. Barak 's security advisor told Israeli Radio Monday such a meeting now is out of the question .", "entity": [{"entity": "later this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [25, 40]}, {"entity": "Stockholm", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 53]}, {"entity": "Barak", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 69]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [95, 102]}, {"entity": "Monday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [109, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He still trails far behind the hard line Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon in the opinion polls .", "entity": [{"entity": "Likud Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 52]}, {"entity": "Ariel Sharon", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Laurie Cassman , VOA News , Jerusalem .", "entity": [{"entity": "Laurie Cassman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "VOA News", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 25]}, {"entity": "Jerusalem", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The two sides met into the early hours Friday at the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "the early hours", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [23, 38]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 45]}, {"entity": "the Gaza Strip", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [70, 84]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Israeli officials say Israel is still hopeful that a framework peace agreement can be reached before the unofficial deadline , the end of President Clinton 's term in office on January 20th .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [148, 155]}, {"entity": "January 20th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [177, 189]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The head of official Palestinian television has been assassinated .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hooded men gunned down Hisha Mickey at a hotel in Gaza City .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hisha Mickey", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 35]}, {"entity": "Gaza City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Palestinian leadership accused the collaborators with Israel for killing Mr. Mickey .", "entity": [{"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 64]}, {"entity": "Mickey", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Mr. Mickey was in charge of Palestinian television and the Palestinian satellite channel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mickey", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [28, 39]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [59, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The United States has issued a worldwide caution to Americans warning of possible terrorist threats .", "entity": [{"entity": "The United States", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "Americans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [52, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No threats are specified but the US embassy in Rome was closed Friday for what officials called security reasons .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 35]}, {"entity": "Rome", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 51]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The State Department periodically issues worldwide cautions .", "entity": [{"entity": "The State Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Israeli soldiers have killed another Palestinian in the West Bank as clashes continue between the two sides .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [37, 48]}, {"entity": "the West Bank", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 65]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [98, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meanwhile , Israel has confiscated the VIP card of a senior Palestinian official .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 18]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [60, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Colonel Taffiq Terrawi , a director of Palestinian intelligence , was briefly detained by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank road block , where they confiscated an Israeli permit that grants him free movement in and out of the area .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taffiq Terrawi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 22]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [90, 97]}, {"entity": "West Bank", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 121]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [161, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the Gaza Strip , Wednesday , Israeli soldiers fired on armed Palestinians trying to cut through a border fence .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Gaza Strip", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 17]}, {"entity": "Wednesday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 29]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [32, 39]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [64, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "ISRAELI radio said four Palestinians were killed , but Palestinian security officials deny there were any casualties and they say no such incident took place .", "entity": [{"entity": "ISRAELI", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 23]}, {"entity": "Palestinians", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [24, 36]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [55, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meanwhile , four Palestinian policemen were killed Wednesday during a nine - hour battle with Israeli troops near a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 16]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 28]}, {"entity": "Wednesday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 60]}, {"entity": "nine - hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [70, 81]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [94, 101]}, {"entity": "the Gaza Strip", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meredith Bewl reports from Jerusalem .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meredith Bewl", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Jerusalem", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Israeli military says Palestinian gunmen at the Khan Younus refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip opened fire on Israeli forces and the soldiers responded .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [26, 37]}, {"entity": "Khan Younus", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [52, 63]}, {"entity": "the Gaza Strip", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 115]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [131, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In the West Bank town of Hebron , Israeli soldiers gunned down a Palestinian member of the militant Hamas group as he was standing outside his shop .", "entity": [{"entity": "West Bank", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 16]}, {"entity": "Hebron", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 31]}, {"entity": "Israeli", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [34, 41]}, {"entity": "Palestinian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [65, 76]}, {"entity": "Hamas", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "International aid agencies have warned that proposed United Nations sanctions against Afghanistan 's Taliban authorities could paralyze efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of drought and conflict .", "entity": [{"entity": "United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 67]}, {"entity": "Afghanistan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [86, 97]}, {"entity": "Taliban", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [101, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Recapping the developments of this disturbing day in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula -- at least six American sailors are dead , 11 still missing and 35 injured after what intelligence experts say was a well - planned terrorist bombing that ripped a 20 x 40 - foot hole in the Navy destroyer `` USS Cole '' in the Yemeni port of Aden .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [53, 68]}, {"entity": "the Arabian Peninsula", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [73, 94]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [111, 119]}, {"entity": "11", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [139, 141]}, {"entity": "35", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [160, 162]}, {"entity": "20 x 40 - foot", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [260, 274]}, {"entity": "Navy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [287, 291]}, {"entity": "`` USS Cole ''", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [302, 316]}, {"entity": "Yemeni", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [324, 330]}, {"entity": "Aden", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [339, 343]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "You know , this decision by the Gore campaign , a refusal to concede even if they do not prevail in the manual recounts under way certainly carries some political risk , but the Gore team tonight defends the decision , saying that fellow Democrats and the public would not only accept but demand what they call a fair and accurate recount in all the relevant counties .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gore", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 36]}, {"entity": "Gore", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [178, 182]}, {"entity": "Democrats", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [238, 247]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The reason they are picking that particular day is it allows , Brian , enough time for the aggrieved party , the losing party to file within 10 days a contest of the certification and that still allows enough time for the contest to be litigated through the courts primarily the circuit court and back to the Supreme Court if necessary and still meet the December 12 deadline for the Electoral College vote here .", "entity": [{"entity": "Brian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [63, 68]}, {"entity": "10 days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [141, 148]}, {"entity": "the Supreme Court", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [305, 322]}, {"entity": "December 12", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [355, 366]}, {"entity": "Electoral College", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [384, 401]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , Greg , the only question that means anything at this hour .", "entity": [{"entity": "Greg", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [6, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "It very well could , although , I must say that the Gore campaign has been somewhat disappointed by the number of votes they have not received thus far in the counties that are undertaking the manual recounts , Brian , but a lot of hand counts still must be tallied .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gore", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "Brian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [211, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "We also have an update on that disturbing development outside Baghdad , about 40 miles or so outside Baghdad in Fallujah where there was a shootout between U.S. troops and Iraqis who had been demonstrating there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 69]}, {"entity": "about 40 miles", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [72, 86]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 108]}, {"entity": "Fallujah", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 120]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [156, 160]}, {"entity": "Iraqis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [172, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Karl Penhaul is joining us live on the phone with more .", "entity": [{"entity": "Karl Penhaul", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Well , joining us now , the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission , William Donaldson .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Securities and Exchange Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 78]}, {"entity": "William Donaldson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [81, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Nice to be here , Lou .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's start with that surprise , the malfeasance that is crossing your desk .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Well , no .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And some people are surprised and I might even add pleased in this city that your SEC has been quick to react when Phil Purcell of Morgan Stanley made a statement that your SEC did n't think and that you did n't think expressed appropriate contrition when Bear Stearns stepped out of line in the view of the SEC .", "entity": [{"entity": "SEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 85]}, {"entity": "Phil Purcell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 127]}, {"entity": "Morgan Stanley", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [131, 145]}, {"entity": "SEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [173, 176]}, {"entity": "Bear Stearns", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [256, 268]}, {"entity": "SEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [308, 311]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "You have also expressed concern about excessive executive compensation , particularly CEO compensation .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "I think so , Lou .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Moving ahead now to a developing story , the hunt for so - called smoking gun , meant to prove that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Barring a cold snap or other crop problems in the growing areas , downward pressure on prices is likely to continue into January , when harvesting and processing of oranges in Florida reach their peak , the analyst said .", "entity": [{"entity": "January", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [121, 128]}, {"entity": "Florida", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [176, 183]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Although some analysts look for profit - taking in the wake of Friday 's leap in crude oil prices , last week 's rally is generally expected to continue this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 69]}, {"entity": "last week 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [100, 112]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [153, 162]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I would continue to look for a stable crude market , at least in futures '' trading , said William Hinton , an energy futures broker with Stotler & Co .", "entity": [{"entity": "William Hinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 108]}, {"entity": "Stotler & Co", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [141, 153]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Friday capped a week of steadily rising crude oil prices in both futures and spot markets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "a week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the New York Mercantile Exchange , West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery finished at $ 20.89 a barrel , up 42 cents on the day .", "entity": [{"entity": "the New York Mercantile Exchange", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [3, 35]}, {"entity": "West Texas Intermediate", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [38, 61]}, {"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [72, 80]}, {"entity": "20.89", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [104, 109]}, {"entity": "42 cents", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [124, 132]}, {"entity": "the day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [136, 143]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On European markets , meanwhile , spot prices of North Sea crudes were up 35 to 75 cents a barrel .", "entity": [{"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [3, 11]}, {"entity": "North Sea", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [49, 58]}, {"entity": "35", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 76]}, {"entity": "75 cents", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [80, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` This market still wants to go higher , '' said Nauman Barakat , a first vice president at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nauman Barakat", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 64]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [69, 74]}, {"entity": "Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [93, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He predicted that the November contract will reach $ 21.50 a barrel or more on the New York Mercantile Exchange .", "entity": [{"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 30]}, {"entity": "21.50", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [53, 58]}, {"entity": "the New York Mercantile Exchange", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [79, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There has been little news to account for such buoyancy in the oil markets .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Analysts generally cite a lack of bearish developments as well as rumors of a possible tightening of supplies of some fuels and crudes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There also are recurring reports that the Soviet Union is having difficulties with its oil exports and that Nigeria has about reached its production limit and ca n't produce as much as it could sell .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Soviet Union", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 54]}, {"entity": "Nigeria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many traders foresee a tightening of near - term supplies , particularly of high - quality crudes such as those produced in the North Sea and in Nigeria .", "entity": [{"entity": "the North Sea", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [124, 137]}, {"entity": "Nigeria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [145, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Financial Corp. of Santa Barbara filed suit against former stock speculator Ivan F. Boesky and Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , charging they defrauded the thrift by concealing their relationship when persuading it to buy $ 284 million in high - yield , high - risk junk bonds .", "entity": [{"entity": "Financial Corp. of Santa Barbara", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 32]}, {"entity": "Ivan F. Boesky", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [76, 90]}, {"entity": "Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [95, 122]}, {"entity": "$ 284 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [219, 232]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In a suit filed in federal court Thursday , the S&L alleged that a `` disproportionate number '' of the bonds it purchased in 1984 declined in value .", "entity": [{"entity": "Thursday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 41]}, {"entity": "1984", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [126, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Financial Corp. purchased the bonds , the suit alleged , after Mr. Boesky and Drexel negotiated an agreement for Vagabond Hotels to purchase a 51 % stake in the thrift for about $ 34 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Financial Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Boesky", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 73]}, {"entity": "Drexel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 84]}, {"entity": "Vagabond Hotels", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [113, 128]}, {"entity": "51 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [143, 147]}, {"entity": "about $ 34 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [172, 190]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Vagabond Hotels was controlled by Mr. Boesky , who currently is serving a prison term for securities violations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Vagabond Hotels", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Boesky", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Officials at Drexel said they had n't seen the suit and thus could n't comment .", "entity": [{"entity": "Drexel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition to $ 33 million compensatory damages , the suit seeks $ 100 million in punitive damages .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 33 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [15, 27]}, {"entity": "$ 100 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [66, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Also named in the suit is Ivan F. Boesky Corp. and Northview Corp. , the successor company to Vagabonds Hotels .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ivan F. Boesky Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 46]}, {"entity": "Northview Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [51, 66]}, {"entity": "Vagabonds Hotels", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [94, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Northview officials could n't be located .", "entity": [{"entity": "Northview", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Financial Corp. said it agreed to buy the bonds after a representative of Ivan F. Boesky Corp. visited it in November 1983 and said Financial Corp. could improve its financial condition by purchasing the bonds .", "entity": [{"entity": "Financial Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Ivan F. Boesky Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 94]}, {"entity": "November 1983", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [109, 122]}, {"entity": "Financial Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [132, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shortly before the visit , Mr. Boesky and Drexel representives had met with Financial Corp. officials and had signed a letter of intent to acquire the 51 % stake in the company .", "entity": [{"entity": "Boesky", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 37]}, {"entity": "Drexel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 48]}, {"entity": "Financial Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 91]}, {"entity": "51 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [151, 155]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the agreement was canceled in June 1984 .", "entity": [{"entity": "June 1984", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Financial Corp. purchased the bonds in at least 70 different transactions in 1984 and since then has realized $ 11 million in losses on them , the company said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Financial Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "at least 70", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "1984", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [77, 81]}, {"entity": "$ 11 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [110, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. said it will delay a proposed two - step , 830 million Canadian - dollar ( US$ 705.6 million ) expansion of its system because Canada 's output of crude oil is shrinking .", "entity": [{"entity": "Interprovincial Pipe Line Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 29]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [60, 63]}, {"entity": "830 million Canadian - dollar", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [73, 102]}, {"entity": "US$ 705.6 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [105, 122]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Interprovincial , Canada 's biggest oil pipeline operator and a major transporter of crude to the U.S. , said revised industry forecasts indicate that Canadian oil output will total about 1.64 million barrels a day by 1991 , 8 % lower than a previous estimate .", "entity": [{"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 24]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [98, 102]}, {"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [151, 159]}, {"entity": "about 1.64 million barrels", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [182, 208]}, {"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [218, 222]}, {"entity": "8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [225, 228]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Canadian crude production averaged about 1.69 million barrels a day during 1989 's first half , about 1 % below the 1988 level .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "about 1.69 million barrels", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [35, 61]}, {"entity": "1989 's first half", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [75, 93]}, {"entity": "about 1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [96, 105]}, {"entity": "1988", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [116, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The capability of existing fields to deliver oil is dropping , '' and oil exploration activity is also down dramatically , as many producers shift their emphasis to natural gas , said Ronald Watkins , vice president for government and industry relations with Interprovincial 's parent , Interhome Energy Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ronald Watkins", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [187, 201]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [262, 277]}, {"entity": "Interhome Energy Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [290, 310]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Watkins said volume on Interprovincial 's system is down about 2 % since January and is expected to fall further , making expansion unnecessary until perhaps the mid-1990s .", "entity": [{"entity": "Watkins", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 42]}, {"entity": "about 2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [61, 70]}, {"entity": "January", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [77, 84]}, {"entity": "mid-1990s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [166, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There has been a swing of the pendulum back to the gas side , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many of Canada 's oil and gas producers say the outlook for natural gas is better than it is for oil , and have shifted their exploration and development budgets accordingly .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [8, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The number of active drilling rigs in Canada is down 30 % from a year ago , and the number of completed oil wells is `` down more than that , due to the increasing focus on gas exploration , '' said Robert Feick , manager of crude oil with Calgary 's Independent Petroleum Association of Canada , an industry group .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 44]}, {"entity": "30 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [53, 57]}, {"entity": "a year ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 73]}, {"entity": "Robert Feick", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [199, 211]}, {"entity": "Calgary 's Independent Petroleum Association of Canada", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [240, 294]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Watkins said the main reason for the production decline is shrinking output of light crude from mature , conventional fields in western Canada .", "entity": [{"entity": "Watkins", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [140, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Interprovincial transports about 75 % of all crude produced in western Canada , and almost 60 % of Interprovincial 's total volume consists of light crude .", "entity": [{"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "about 75 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [27, 37]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 77]}, {"entity": "almost 60 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [84, 95]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [99, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nearly all of the crude oil that Canada exports to the U.S. is transported on Interprovincial 's system , whose main line runs from Edmonton to major U.S. and Canadian cities in the Great Lakes region , including Chicago , Buffalo , Toronto and Montreal .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 39]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 59]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 93]}, {"entity": "Edmonton", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 140]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 154]}, {"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [159, 167]}, {"entity": "Great Lakes", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [182, 193]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [213, 220]}, {"entity": "Buffalo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [223, 230]}, {"entity": "Toronto", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [233, 240]}, {"entity": "Montreal", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [245, 253]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Canada 's current oil exports to the U.S. total about 600,000 barrels a day , or about 9.1 % of net U.S. crude imports , said John Lichtblau , president of the New York - based Petroleum Industry Research Foundation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "about 600,000 barrels", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [48, 69]}, {"entity": "about 9.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [81, 92]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 104]}, {"entity": "John Lichtblau", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [126, 140]}, {"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [160, 168]}, {"entity": "Petroleum Industry Research Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [177, 215]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That ranks Canada as the fourth - largest source of imported crude , behind Saudi Arabia , Nigeria and Mexico .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 17]}, {"entity": "fourth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [25, 31]}, {"entity": "Saudi Arabia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 88]}, {"entity": "Nigeria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 98]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Lichtblau said Canada 's declining crude output , combined with the fast - shrinking output of U.S. crude , will help intensify U.S. reliance on oil from overseas , particularly the Middle East .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lichtblau", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 13]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 25]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [99, 103]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 136]}, {"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [182, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` It 's very much a growing concern .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But when something is inevitable , you learn to live with it , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Lichtblau stressed that the delay of Interprovincial 's proposed expansion wo n't by itself increase U.S. dependence on offshore crude , however , since Canadian imports are limited in any case by Canada 's falling output .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lichtblau", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 13]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 56]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [105, 109]}, {"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [157, 165]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [201, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Under terms of its proposed two - step expansion , which would have required regulatory approval , Interprovincial intended to add 200,000 barrels a day of additional capacity to its system , beginning with a modest expansion by 1991 .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [28, 31]}, {"entity": "Interprovincial", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [99, 114]}, {"entity": "200,000 barrels", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [131, 146]}, {"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [229, 233]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The system currently has a capacity of 1.55 million barrels a day .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.55 million barrels", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [39, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Honeywell Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. received Air Force contracts to develop integrated circuits for use in space .", "entity": [{"entity": "Honeywell Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "International Business Machines Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 56]}, {"entity": "Air Force", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [66, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Honeywell 's contract totaled $ 69.7 million , and IBM 's $ 68.8 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Honeywell", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "$ 69.7 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [30, 44]}, {"entity": "IBM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [51, 54]}, {"entity": "$ 68.8 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [58, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Boeing Co. received a $ 46.7 million Air Force contract for developing cable systems for the Minuteman Missile .", "entity": [{"entity": "Boeing Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "$ 46.7 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [22, 36]}, {"entity": "Air Force", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 46]}, {"entity": "the Minuteman Missile", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [89, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "General Dynamics Corp. received a $ 29 million Air Force contract for electronic - warfare training sets .", "entity": [{"entity": "General Dynamics Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "$ 29 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [34, 46]}, {"entity": "Air Force", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [47, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Grumman Corp. received an $ 18.1 million Navy contract to upgrade aircraft electronics .", "entity": [{"entity": "Grumman Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "$ 18.1 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [26, 40]}, {"entity": "Navy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Avco Corp. received an $ 11.8 million Army contract for helicopter engines .", "entity": [{"entity": "Avco Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "$ 11.8 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [23, 37]}, {"entity": "Army", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The West German retailer ASKO Deutsche Kaufhaus AG plans to challenge the legality of a widely employed anti-takeover defense of companies in the Netherlands .", "entity": [{"entity": "West German", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "ASKO Deutsche Kaufhaus AG", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [25, 50]}, {"entity": "Netherlands", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [146, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The eventual court decision could become a landmark in Dutch corporate law because the lawsuit ASKO plans to file would be the first to challenge the entire principle and practice of companies issuing voting preferred shares to management - controlled trusts to dilute voting power of common stockholders .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [55, 60]}, {"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [95, 99]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [127, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Up to now only specific aspects of these defenses have been challenged , though unsuccessfully , ASKO 's Dutch lawyers noted .", "entity": [{"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 101]}, {"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [105, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Should the courts uphold the validity of this type of defense , ASKO will then ask the court to overturn such a vote - diluting maneuver recently deployed by Koninklijke Ahold NV .", "entity": [{"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 68]}, {"entity": "Koninklijke Ahold NV", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [158, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "ASKO says the Dutch - based international food retailer had n't reasonable grounds to issue preferred stock to a friendly trust and thus dilute the worth and voting power of ASKO and other shareholders .", "entity": [{"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [14, 19]}, {"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [174, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Speaking through its Dutch lawyers , ASKO also disclosed it holds a 15 % stake in Ahold .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "15 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [68, 72]}, {"entity": "Ahold", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was previously thought ASKO held a 13.6 % stake that was accumulated since July .", "entity": [{"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 30]}, {"entity": "13.6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [38, 44]}, {"entity": "July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [78, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A spokesman for Ahold said his company is confident of its own position and the propriety of the preferred - share issue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ahold", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He termed ASKO 's legal actions as `` unproductive '' to international cooperation among European retailers .", "entity": [{"entity": "ASKO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [89, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in the Arcadian Phosphate case did not repudiate the position Pennzoil Co. took in its dispute with Texaco , contrary to your Sept. 8 article `` Court Backs Texaco 's View in Pennzoil Case -- Too Late . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 40]}, {"entity": "Arcadian Phosphate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 74]}, {"entity": "Pennzoil Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 123]}, {"entity": "Texaco", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [149, 155]}, {"entity": "Sept. 8", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [175, 182]}, {"entity": "Court Backs Texaco 's View in Pennzoil Case -- Too Late", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [194, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fundamental rule of contract law applied to both cases was that courts will not enforce agreements to which the parties did not intend to be bound .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the Pennzoil / Texaco litigation , the courts found Pennzoil and Getty Oil intended to be bound ; in Arcadian Phosphates they found there was no intention to be bound .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pennzoil", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [7, 15]}, {"entity": "Pennzoil", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 63]}, {"entity": "Getty Oil", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [68, 77]}, {"entity": "Arcadian Phosphates", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [104, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` Giveaways just give people the wrong image , '' said Mr. Heinemann .", "entity": [{"entity": "Heinemann", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Source : Telerate Systems Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Telerate Systems Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Investors who bought stock with borrowed money -- that is , `` on margin '' -- may be more worried than most following Friday 's market drop .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [119, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's because their brokers can require them to sell some shares or put up more cash to enhance the collateral backing their loans .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "If the investor does n't put up the extra cash to satisfy the call , the brokerage firm may begin liquidating the securities .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But some big brokerage firms said they do n't expect major problems as a result of margin calls .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Merrill Lynch & Co. officials `` do n't expect { margin calls } to be as big a factor as in 1987 '' because fewer individual investors are buying stock on margin , a spokesman said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Merrill Lynch & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 19]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [92, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hugo Quackenbush , senior vice president at Charles Schwab Corp. , the San Francisco - based discount brokerage firm , said he did n't expect any immediate problems with margin calls for Schwab customers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hugo Quackenbush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "Charles Schwab Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 64]}, {"entity": "San Francisco", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 84]}, {"entity": "Schwab", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [187, 193]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Syms Corp. completed the sale of its A. Sulka & Co. subsidiary , a men 's luxury haberdashery , to Luxco Investments .", "entity": [{"entity": "Syms Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "A. Sulka & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 51]}, {"entity": "Luxco Investments", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [99, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As Syms 's `` core business of off - price retailing grows , a small subsidiary that is operationally unrelated becomes a difficult distraction , '' said Marcy Syms , president of the parent , in a statement .", "entity": [{"entity": "Syms", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Marcy Syms", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [154, 164]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Limited Inc. , offering of up to $ 300 million of debt securities and warrants .", "entity": [{"entity": "Limited Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "up to $ 300 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [27, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nuveen California Performance Plus Municipal Fund Inc. , initial offering of five million common shares , via Alex . Brown & Sons Inc. , John Nuveen & Co. , Prudential - Bache Capital Funding , and Bateman Eichler , Hill Richards .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nuveen California Performance Plus Municipal Fund Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 54]}, {"entity": "five million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [77, 89]}, {"entity": "Alex . Brown & Sons Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 134]}, {"entity": "John Nuveen & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [137, 154]}, {"entity": "Prudential - Bache Capital Funding", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [157, 191]}, {"entity": "Bateman Eichler , Hill Richards", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [198, 229]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. , proposed offering of 1.5 million common shares , of which 700,000 shares will be offered by PacifiCare and 800,000 shares by UniHealth America Inc . ( PacifiCare 's 71 % ) , via Dillon , Read & Co. Inc. , Goldman , Sachs & Co. and Dean Witter Reynolds Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 30]}, {"entity": "1.5 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [54, 65]}, {"entity": "700,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [91, 98]}, {"entity": "PacifiCare", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [125, 135]}, {"entity": "800,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [140, 147]}, {"entity": "UniHealth America Inc .", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [158, 181]}, {"entity": "PacifiCare", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [184, 194]}, {"entity": "71 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [198, 202]}, {"entity": "Dillon , Read & Co. Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [211, 235]}, {"entity": "Goldman , Sachs & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [238, 259]}, {"entity": "Dean Witter Reynolds Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [264, 288]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Trans World Airlines Inc. , offering of $ 150 million senior notes , via Drexel Burnham .", "entity": [{"entity": "Trans World Airlines Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 25]}, {"entity": "$ 150 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [40, 53]}, {"entity": "Drexel Burnham", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [73, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The only thing Robert Goldberg could praise about CBS 's new show `` Island Son '' ( Leisure & Arts , Sept. 25 ) was the local color ; unfortunately neither he nor the producers of the show have done their homework .", "entity": [{"entity": "Robert Goldberg", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 30]}, {"entity": "CBS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 53]}, {"entity": "Island Son", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [69, 79]}, {"entity": "Leisure & Arts", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 99]}, {"entity": "Sept. 25", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [102, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Mrs. Hills ' first trip to Japan as America 's chief trade negotiator had a completely different tone from last month 's visit by Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hills", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 10]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 32]}, {"entity": "America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 43]}, {"entity": "last month 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [107, 120]}, {"entity": "Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [130, 138]}, {"entity": "Robert A. Mosbacher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [149, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But Mrs. Hills , speaking at a breakfast meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan on Saturday , stressed that the objective `` is not to get definitive action by spring or summer , it is rather to have a blueprint for action . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Hills", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 14]}, {"entity": "the American Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 84]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 93]}, {"entity": "Saturday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [97, 105]}, {"entity": "spring", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [174, 180]}, {"entity": "summer", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [184, 190]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "How such remarks translate into policy wo n't become clear for months .", "entity": [{"entity": "months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "American and Japanese officials offered several theories for the difference in approach betwen Mr. Mosbacher and Mrs. Hills .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [13, 21]}, {"entity": "Mosbacher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [99, 108]}, {"entity": "Hills", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [118, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Asked to compare her visit to Mr. Mosbacher 's , Mrs. Hills replied : `` I did n't hear every word he spoke , but as a general proposition , I think we have a very consistent trade strategy in the Bush administration . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Mosbacher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 43]}, {"entity": "Hills", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 59]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [197, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "When she met the local press for the first time on Friday , Mrs. Hills firmly reiterated the need for progress in removing barriers to trade in forest products , satellites and supercomputers , three areas targeted under the Super 301 provision of the 1988 trade bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [37, 42]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 57]}, {"entity": "Hills", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [65, 70]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [194, 199]}, {"entity": "Super 301", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [225, 234]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At her news conference for Japanese reporters , one economics journalist summed up the Japanese sense of relief .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 35]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [48, 51]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [87, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The U.S. share of the Japanese market has been stuck around 10 % for years .", "entity": [{"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [22, 30]}, {"entity": "10 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [60, 64]}, {"entity": "years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "September 's steep rise in producer prices shows that inflation still persists , and the pessimism over interest rates caused by the new price data contributed to the stock market 's plunge Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [190, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After falling for three consecutive months , the producer price index for finished goods shot up 0.9 % last month , the Labor Department reported Friday , as energy prices jumped after tumbling through the summer .", "entity": [{"entity": "three consecutive months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [18, 42]}, {"entity": "0.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "last month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [103, 113]}, {"entity": "the Labor Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 136]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [146, 152]}, {"entity": "the summer", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [202, 212]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although the report , which was released before the stock market opened , did n't trigger the 190.58 - point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average , analysts said it did play a role in the market 's decline .", "entity": [{"entity": "190.58", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [94, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Analysts immediately viewed the price data , the grimmest inflation news in months , as evidence that the Federal Reserve was unlikely to allow interest rates to fall as many investors had hoped .", "entity": [{"entity": "months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [76, 82]}, {"entity": "the Federal Reserve", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [102, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Further fueling the belief that pressures in the economy were sufficient to keep the Fed from easing credit , the Commerce Department reported Friday that retail sales grew 0.5 % in September , to $ 145.21 billion .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fed", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 88]}, {"entity": "the Commerce Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 133]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [143, 149]}, {"entity": "0.5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [173, 178]}, {"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [182, 191]}, {"entity": "$ 145.21 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [197, 213]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` I think the Friday report , combined with the actions of the Fed , weakened the belief that there was going to be an imminent easing of monetary policy , '' said Robert Dederick , chief economist at Northern Trust Co. in Chicago .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 21]}, {"entity": "Fed", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 67]}, {"entity": "Robert Dederick", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [165, 180]}, {"entity": "Northern Trust Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [202, 220]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [224, 231]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But economists were divided over the extent of the inflation threat signaled by the new numbers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The overall 0.9 % increase is serious in itself , but what is even worse is that excluding food and energy , the producer price index still increased by 0.7 % , '' said Gordon Richards , an economist at the National Association of Manufacturers .", "entity": [{"entity": "0.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [15, 20]}, {"entity": "0.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [156, 161]}, {"entity": "Gordon Richards", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [172, 187]}, {"entity": "the National Association of Manufacturers", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [206, 247]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Sung Won Sohn , chief economist at Norwest Corp. in Minneapolis , blamed rising energy prices and the annual autumn increase in car prices for most of the September jump .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sung Won Sohn", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 17]}, {"entity": "Norwest Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 52]}, {"entity": "Minneapolis", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 67]}, {"entity": "annual", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [106, 112]}, {"entity": "autumn", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [113, 119]}, {"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [159, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I would say this is not bad news ; this is a blip , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Inflation unquestionably has fallen back from its torrid pace last winter , when a steep run - up in world oil prices sent the index surging at double - digit annual rates .", "entity": [{"entity": "last winter", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 73]}, {"entity": "annual", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [159, 165]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Moreover , this year 's good inflation news may have ended last month , when energy prices zoomed up 6.5 % after plunging 7.3 % in August .", "entity": [{"entity": "year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 20]}, {"entity": "last month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 69]}, {"entity": "6.5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [101, 106]}, {"entity": "7.3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [122, 127]}, {"entity": "August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [131, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some analysts expect oil prices to remain relatively stable in the months ahead , leaving the future pace of inflation uncertain .", "entity": [{"entity": "the months ahead", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` I think the resurgence { in inflation } is going to continue for a few months , '' said John Mueller , chief economist at Bell Mueller Cannon , a Washington economic forecasting firm .", "entity": [{"entity": "a few months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 80]}, {"entity": "John Mueller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [91, 103]}, {"entity": "Bell Mueller Cannon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [125, 144]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [149, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He predicted that inflation will moderate next year , saying that credit conditions are fairly tight world - wide .", "entity": [{"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [42, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Dirk Van Dongen , president of the National Association of Wholesaler - Distributors , said that last month 's rise `` is n't as bad an omen '' as the 0.9 % figure suggests .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dirk Van Dongen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "the National Association of Wholesaler - Distributors", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 88]}, {"entity": "last month 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [101, 114]}, {"entity": "0.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [155, 160]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` If you examine the data carefully , the increase is concentrated in energy and motor vehicle prices , rather than being a broad - based advance in the prices of consumer and industrial goods , '' he explained .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Many analysts said the September increase was a one - time event , coming as dealers introduced their 1990 models .", "entity": [{"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 32]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [48, 51]}, {"entity": "1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [102, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although all the price data were adjusted for normal seasonal fluctuations , car prices rose beyond the customary autumn increase .", "entity": [{"entity": "autumn", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [114, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As the 1992 economic integration approaches , Europe 's cultural curators have taken to the ramparts against American `` cultural imperialism , '' threatening to impose quotas against such pop invaders as `` Dallas , '' `` Miami Vice '' and `` L.A. Law . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [7, 11]}, {"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [46, 52]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [109, 117]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [208, 214]}, {"entity": "Miami Vice", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [223, 233]}, {"entity": "L.A. Law", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [244, 252]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Topping the cheese stunt , on another typical evening of fun on `` Wetten Dass , '' a contestant won a bet with the show 's host , Thomas Gottschalk , that he could identify 300 German dialects over the telephone .", "entity": [{"entity": "another typical evening", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [30, 53]}, {"entity": "Wetten Dass", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [67, 78]}, {"entity": "Thomas Gottschalk", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [131, 148]}, {"entity": "300", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [174, 177]}, {"entity": "German", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [178, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Attempts to produce `` pan-European '' programs have generally resulted in disappointment .", "entity": [{"entity": "pan-European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [23, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One annual co-production , the three - hour - long `` Eurovision Song Contest , '' featuring soft - rock songs from each of 20 European countries , has been described as the world 's most boring TV show .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "annual", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "three - hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [31, 43]}, {"entity": "Eurovision Song Contest", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [54, 77]}, {"entity": "20", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [124, 126]}, {"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [127, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "A U.S. - made imitation under the title `` Almost Anything Goes '' flopped fast .", "entity": [{"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [2, 6]}, {"entity": "Almost Anything Goes", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [43, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "A French knock - off of `` Dallas , '' called `` Chateauvallon '' and set in a French vineyard , had a good run in France , which ended after the female lead was injured in a real - life auto accident .", "entity": [{"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [2, 8]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [27, 33]}, {"entity": "Chateauvallon", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [49, 62]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [79, 85]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [115, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Italy 's most popular series is a drama called `` La Piovra , '' or `` The Octopus , '' which chronicles the fight of an idealistic young investigator in Palermo against the Mafia .", "entity": [{"entity": "Italy", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "La Piovra", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [50, 59]}, {"entity": "The Octopus", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [71, 82]}, {"entity": "Palermo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [154, 161]}, {"entity": "Mafia", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [174, 179]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was front - page news in Italy earlier this year when the fictional inspector was gunned down in the series .", "entity": [{"entity": "Italy", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 33]}, {"entity": "earlier this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [34, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` The trend is pretty well established now that local programs are the most popular , with American programs second , '' says Brian Wenham , a former director of programs for the British Broadcasting Corp .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [92, 100]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [110, 116]}, {"entity": "Brian Wenham", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [127, 139]}, {"entity": "the British Broadcasting Corp", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [176, 205]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` We 've basically got to start from scratch , to train writers and producers to make shows that other people will want to see , '' concedes Colin Young , head of Britain 's National Film Theatre School .", "entity": [{"entity": "Colin Young", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [142, 153]}, {"entity": "Britain", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [164, 171]}, {"entity": "National Film Theatre School", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [175, 203]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While some in the U.S. contend that advertising is the bane of television , here many believe that its absence is to blame for the European TV industry 's sluggish development .", "entity": [{"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 22]}, {"entity": "European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [131, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But not much money was spent on the shows , either , a situation that encouraged cheap - to - make talk and game shows , while discouraging expensive - to - produce dramas .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Sky Channel , a British - based venture of Australian - American press tycoon Rupert Murdoch , offers what must be a baffling cultural mix to most of its audience .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sky Channel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [16, 23]}, {"entity": "Australian - American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 64]}, {"entity": "Rupert Murdoch", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [78, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Lisa Grishaw - Mueller in Bonn , Laura Colby in Milan , Tim Carrington in London and Carlta Vitzhum in Madrid contributed to this article .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lisa Grishaw - Mueller", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "Bonn", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 30]}, {"entity": "Laura Colby", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 44]}, {"entity": "Milan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 53]}, {"entity": "Tim Carrington", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [56, 70]}, {"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 80]}, {"entity": "Carlta Vitzhum", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [85, 99]}, {"entity": "Madrid", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Food and Drug Administration spokesman Jeff Nesbit said the agency has turned over evidence in a criminal investigation concerning Vitarine Pharmaceuticals Inc. to the U.S. Attorney 's office in Baltimore .", "entity": [{"entity": "Food and Drug Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 28]}, {"entity": "Jeff Nesbit", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 50]}, {"entity": "Vitarine Pharmaceuticals Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [131, 160]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [168, 172]}, {"entity": "Baltimore", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [195, 204]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Vitarine won approval to market a version of a blood pressure medicine but acknowledged that it substituted a SmithKline Beecham PLC product as its own in tests .", "entity": [{"entity": "Vitarine", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "SmithKline Beecham PLC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "When Justice William Brennan marks the start of his 34th year on the Supreme Court today , the occasion will differ sharply from previous anniversaries of his tenure .", "entity": [{"entity": "William Brennan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 28]}, {"entity": "34th", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [57, 61]}, {"entity": "the Supreme Court", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 82]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [83, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "This role reversal holds true , as well , for his three liberal and moderate allies , Justices Thurgood Marshall , Harry Blackmun and John Stevens .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [50, 55]}, {"entity": "Thurgood Marshall", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [95, 112]}, {"entity": "Harry Blackmun", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [115, 129]}, {"entity": "John Stevens", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [134, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But always , in years past , they have bucked the trend and have been able to pick up a fifth vote to eke out a number of major victories in civil rights and liberties cases .", "entity": [{"entity": "years past", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [16, 26]}, {"entity": "fifth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [88, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Associates of 81 - year - old Justice Marshall say he was `` depressed '' about the court 's direction last spring , but is feisty about his role and determined to speak out against the court 's cutbacks in civil rights .", "entity": [{"entity": "81 - year - old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 29]}, {"entity": "Marshall", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [38, 46]}, {"entity": "last spring", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [103, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Justice Stevens , 69 , is probably the most philosophical of the dissenters about his role , in part because he may be the least liberal of the four , but also because he enjoys the intellectual challenge of arguing with the majority more than the others .", "entity": [{"entity": "Stevens", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 15]}, {"entity": "69", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [18, 20]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [144, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` The dissenters of the Warren Court were often defending a legal legacy that they inherited , '' says Prof. A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia Law School , `` but the dissenters today are defending a legacy that they created .", "entity": [{"entity": "Warren", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 31]}, {"entity": "A.E. Dick Howard", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [110, 126]}, {"entity": "the University of Virginia Law School", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [130, 167]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [192, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just when it seemed safe to go back into stocks , Wall Street suffered another severe attack of nerves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Does this signal another Black Monday is coming ?", "entity": [{"entity": "another Black Monday", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [17, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or is this an extraordinary buying opportunity , just like Oct. 19 , 1987 , eventually turned out to be ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Oct. 19 , 1987 ,", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's what several leading market experts and money managers say about Friday 's action , what happens next and what investors should do .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [73, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Joseph Granville .", "entity": [{"entity": "Joseph Granville .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I 'm the only one who said there would be an October massacre , all through late August and September , '' says Mr. Granville , once a widely followed market guru and still a well - known newsletter writer .", "entity": [{"entity": "October", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 55]}, {"entity": "late August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [79, 90]}, {"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [95, 104]}, {"entity": "Granville", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [119, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Everyone will tell you that this time is different from 1987 , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Well , in some ways it is different , but technically it is just the same .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you 're a technician , you obey the signals .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right now they 're telling me to get the hell out and stay out .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I see no major support until 2200 .", "entity": [{"entity": "2200", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I see a possibility of going to 2200 this month . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "2200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [32, 36]}, {"entity": "this month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Granville says he would n't even think of buying until at least 600 to 700 stocks have hit 52 - week lows ; about 100 stocks hit new lows Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Granville", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 13]}, {"entity": "600", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [68, 71]}, {"entity": "700", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [75, 78]}, {"entity": "52 - week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [95, 104]}, {"entity": "about 100", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [112, 121]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [142, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Most people , '' he says , `` have no idea what a massacre pattern looks like . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Elaine Garzarelli .", "entity": [{"entity": "Elaine Garzarelli .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A quantitative analyst with Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. , Ms. Garzarelli had warned clients to take their money out of the market before the 1987 crash .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 55]}, {"entity": "Garzarelli", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [62, 72]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [141, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Friday 's big drop , she says , `` was not a crash .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This was an October massacre '' like those that occurred in 1978 and 1979 .", "entity": [{"entity": "October", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 19]}, {"entity": "1978", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [60, 64]}, {"entity": "1979", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , as in those two years , her stock market indicators are positive .", "entity": [{"entity": "those two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So she thinks the damage will be short - lived and contained .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Those corrections lasted one to four weeks and took the market 10%-12 % down , '' she says .", "entity": [{"entity": "one to four weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 45]}, {"entity": "10%-12 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [66, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` This is exactly the same thing , as far as I 'm concerned . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus , she says , if the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below 2450 , `` It would just be a fluke .", "entity": [{"entity": "2450", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [68, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My advice is to buy . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As she calculates it , the average stock now sells for about 12.5 times companies ' earnings .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 12.5", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She says that ratio could climb to 14.5 , given current interest rates , and still be within the range of `` fair value . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "14.5", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [35, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ned Davis .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ned Davis .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Friday 's fall marks the start of a bear market , says Mr. Davis , president of Ned Davis Research Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 64]}, {"entity": "Ned Davis Research Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Mr. Davis , whose views are widely respected by money managers , says he expects no 1987 - style crash .", "entity": [{"entity": "Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 13]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [88, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There was a unique combination in 1987 , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [37, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Margin debt was at a record high .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There was tremendous public enthusiasm for stock mutual funds .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The main thing was portfolio insurance , '' a mechanical trading system intended to protect an investor against losses . ``", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A hundred billion dollars in stock was subject '' to it .", "entity": [{"entity": "A hundred billion dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [0, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1987 , such selling contributed to a snowball effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today could even be an up day , Mr. Davis says , if major brokerage firms agree to refrain from program trading .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "an up day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 29]}, {"entity": "Davis", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [36, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Over the next several months , though , he says things look bad .", "entity": [{"entity": "the next several months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I think the market will be heading down into November , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We will probably have a year - end rally , and then go down again .", "entity": [{"entity": "year - end", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sort of a two - step bear market . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He expects the downturn to carry the Dow Jones Industrial Average down to around 2000 sometime next year .", "entity": [{"entity": "2000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [81, 85]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [95, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` That would be a normal bear market , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I guess that 's my forecast . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Leon G. Cooperman .", "entity": [{"entity": "Leon G. Cooperman .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I do n't think the market is going through another October '87 .", "entity": [{"entity": "another October '87", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do n't think that 's the case at all , '' says Mr. Cooperman , a partner at Goldman , Sachs & Co. and chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cooperman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [53, 62]}, {"entity": "Goldman , Sachs & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [78, 99]}, {"entity": "Goldman Sachs Asset Management", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Cooperman sees this as a good time to pick up bargains , but he does n't think there 's any need to rush .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cooperman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I expect the market to open weaker Monday , but then it should find some stability . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Monday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He ticks off several major differences between now and two years ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "now", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 50]}, {"entity": "two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unlike 1987 , interest rates have been falling this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [7, 11]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unlike 1987 , the dollar has been strong .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [7, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And unlike 1987 , the economy does n't appear to be in any danger of overheating .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [11, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the economy 's slower growth this year also means the outlook for corporate profits `` is n't good , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` So it 's a very mixed bag . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus , he concludes , `` This is not a good environment to be fully invested '' in stocks .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` If I had come into Friday on margin or with very little cash in the portfolios , I would not do any buying .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But we came into Friday with a conservative portfolio , so I would look to do some modest buying '' on behalf of clients . ``", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [17, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We 're going to look for some of the better - known companies that got clocked '' Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [82, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "John Kenneth Galbraith .", "entity": [{"entity": "John Kenneth Galbraith .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` This is the latest manifestation of the capacity of the financial community for recurrent insanity , '' says Mr. Galbraith , an economist .", "entity": [{"entity": "Galbraith", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [116, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I see this as a reaction to the whole junk bond explosion , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The explosion of junk bonds and takeovers has lodged a lot of insecure securities in the hands of investors and loaded the corporations that are the objects of takeovers or feared takeovers with huge amounts of debt rather than equity .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This has both made investors uneasy and the corporations more vulnerable . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Nevertheless , he says a depression does n't appear likely .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There is more resiliency in the economy at large than we commonly suppose , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` It takes more error now to have a major depression than back in the Thirties -- much as the financial community and the government may try . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Thirties", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [71, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mario Gabelli .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mario Gabelli .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "New York money manager Mario Gabelli , an expert at spotting takeover candidates , says that takeovers are n't totally gone .", "entity": [{"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Mario Gabelli", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Companies are still going to buy companies around the world , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "These sorts of takeovers do n't require junk bonds or big bank loans to finance them , so Mr. Gabelli figures they will continue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gabelli", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The market was up 35 % since { President } Bush took office , '' Mr. Gabelli says , so a correction was to be expected .", "entity": [{"entity": "35 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [21, 25]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 50]}, {"entity": "Gabelli", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He thinks another crash is `` unlikely , '' and says he was `` nibbling at '' selected stocks during Friday 's plunge .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [101, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Stocks that were thrown out just on an emotional basis are a great opportunity { this } week for guys like me , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [91, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jim Rogers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jim Rogers .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` It seems to me that this is the pin that has finally pricked the balloon , '' says Mr. Rogers , a professor of finance at Columbia University and former co-manager of one of the most successful hedge funds in history , Quantum Fund .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rogers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [90, 96]}, {"entity": "Columbia University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [125, 144]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [170, 173]}, {"entity": "Quantum Fund", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [222, 234]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` Friday you could n't sell dollars , '' he says .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dealers `` would give you a quote , but then refuse to make the trade . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the dollar stays weak , he says , that will add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. and make it hard for the Federal Reserve Board to ease interest rates very much .", "entity": [{"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 88]}, {"entity": "the Federal Reserve Board", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Rogers wo n't decide what to do today until he sees how the London and Tokyo markets go .", "entity": [{"entity": "Rogers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [36, 41]}, {"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 70]}, {"entity": "Tokyo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He recommends that investors sell takeover - related stocks , but hang on to some other stocks -- especially utilities , which often do well during periods of economic weakness .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Frank Curzio .", "entity": [{"entity": "Frank Curzio .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many people now claim to have predicted the 1987 crash .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Queens newsletter writer Francis X. Curzio actually did it : He stated in writing in September 1987 that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was likely to decline about 500 points the following month .", "entity": [{"entity": "Queens", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Francis X. Curzio", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 42]}, {"entity": "September 1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [85, 99]}, {"entity": "about 500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [160, 169]}, {"entity": "the following month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [177, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Curzio says what happens now will depend a good deal on the Federal Reserve Board .", "entity": [{"entity": "Curzio", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "the Federal Reserve Board", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If it promptly cuts the discount rate it charges on loans to banks , he says , `` That could quiet things down . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If not , `` We could go to 2200 very soon . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "2200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [27, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Frank W. Terrizzi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Frank W. Terrizzi .", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Stock prices `` would still have to go down some additional amount before we become positive on stocks , '' says Mr. Terrizzi , president and managing director of Renaissance Investment Management Inc. in Cincinnati .", "entity": [{"entity": "Terrizzi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [117, 125]}, {"entity": "Renaissance Investment Management Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [163, 201]}, {"entity": "Cincinnati", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [205, 215]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Renaissance , which manages about $ 1.8 billion , drew stiff criticism from many clients earlier this year because it pulled entirely out of stocks at the beginning of the year and thus missed a strong rally .", "entity": [{"entity": "Renaissance", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "about $ 1.8 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [28, 47]}, {"entity": "earlier this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [89, 106]}, {"entity": "the beginning of the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [151, 176]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` T - bills probably are the right place to be , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If a hostile predator emerges for Saatchi & Saatchi Co. , co-founders Charles and Maurice Saatchi will lead a management buy - out attempt , an official close to the company said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saatchi & Saatchi Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [34, 55]}, {"entity": "Charles", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 77]}, {"entity": "Maurice Saatchi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [82, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Financing for any takeover attempt may be problematic in the wake of Friday 's stock - market sell - off in New York and turmoil in the junk - bond market .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 75]}, {"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the beleaguered British advertising and consulting giant , which last week named a new chief executive officer to replace Maurice Saatchi , has been the subject of intense takeover speculation for weeks .", "entity": [{"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [20, 27]}, {"entity": "last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 78]}, {"entity": "Maurice Saatchi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [126, 141]}, {"entity": "weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [201, 206]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last week , Saatchi 's largest shareholder , Southeastern Asset Management , said it had been approached by one or more third parties interested in a possible restructuring .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 19]}, {"entity": "Southeastern Asset Management", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 74]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [108, 111]}, {"entity": "third", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [120, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Carl Spielvogel , chief executive officer of Saatchi 's big Backer Spielvogel Bates advertising unit , said he had offered to lead a management buy - out of the company , but was rebuffed by Charles Saatchi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Carl Spielvogel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [49, 56]}, {"entity": "Backer Spielvogel Bates", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 87]}, {"entity": "Charles Saatchi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [195, 210]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Spielvogel said he would n't launch a hostile bid .", "entity": [{"entity": "Spielvogel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The executive close to Saatchi & Saatchi said that `` if a bidder came up with a ludicrously high offer , a crazy offer which Saatchi knew it could n't beat , it would have no choice but to recommend it to shareholders .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saatchi & Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 40]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [126, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But { otherwise } it would undoubtedly come back '' with an offer by management .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The executive said any buy - out would be led by the current board , whose chairman is Maurice Saatchi and whose strategic guiding force is believed to be Charles Saatchi .", "entity": [{"entity": "Maurice Saatchi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [87, 102]}, {"entity": "Charles Saatchi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [155, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Spielvogel is n't part of the board , nor are any of the other heads of Saatchi 's big U.S. - based ad agencies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Spielvogel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 83]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The executive did n't name any price , but securities analysts have said Saatchi would fetch upward of $ 1.3 billion .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [73, 80]}, {"entity": "$ 1.3 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [103, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The executive denied speculation that Saatchi was bringing in the new chief executive officer only to clean up the company financially so that the brothers could lead a buy - back .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That speculation abounded Friday as industry executives analyzed the appointment of the new chief executive , Robert Louis - Dreyfus , who joins Saatchi and becomes a member of its board on Jan. 1 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [26, 32]}, {"entity": "Robert Louis - Dreyfus", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [110, 132]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [145, 152]}, {"entity": "Jan. 1", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [190, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Louis - Dreyfus , formerly chief executive of the pharmaceutical research firm IMS International Inc. , has a reputation as a savvy financial manager , and will be charged largely with repairing Saatchi 's poor financial state .", "entity": [{"entity": "Louis - Dreyfus", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "IMS International Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [83, 105]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [199, 206]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Asked about the speculation that Mr. Louis - Dreyfus has been hired to pave the way for a buy - out by the brothers , the executive replied , `` That is n't the reason Dreyfus has been brought in .", "entity": [{"entity": "Louis - Dreyfus", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 52]}, {"entity": "Dreyfus", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [168, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Separately , several Saatchi agency clients said they believe the company 's management shakeup will have little affect on them .", "entity": [{"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` It has n't had any impact on us , nor do we expect it to , '' said a spokeswoman for Miller Brewing Co. , a major client of Backer Spielvogel .", "entity": [{"entity": "Miller Brewing Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [88, 106]}, {"entity": "Backer Spielvogel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [127, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "John Lampe , director of advertising at PaineWebber Inc. , a Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising client , said : `` We have no problem with the announcement , because we do n't know what change it 's going to bring about .", "entity": [{"entity": "John Lampe", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "PaineWebber Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 56]}, {"entity": "Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We are n't going to change agencies because of a change in London . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "London", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Executives at Backer Spielvogel client Avis Inc. , as well as at Saatchi client Philips Lighting Co. , also said they saw no effect .", "entity": [{"entity": "Backer Spielvogel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 31]}, {"entity": "Avis Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 48]}, {"entity": "Saatchi", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 72]}, {"entity": "Philips Lighting Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Executives at Prudential - Bache Securities Inc. , a Backer Spielvogel client that is reviewing its account , declined comment .", "entity": [{"entity": "Prudential - Bache Securities Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 48]}, {"entity": "Backer Spielvogel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Spielvogel had said that Prudential - Bache was prepared to finance either a management buy - out and restructuring , or a buy - out of Backer Spielvogel alone , led by him .", "entity": [{"entity": "Spielvogel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "Prudential - Bache", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [29, 47]}, {"entity": "Backer Spielvogel", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [140, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ad Notes ... .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NEW ACCOUNT :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "California 's Glendale Federal Bank awarded its $ 12 million to $ 15 million account to the Los Angeles office of Omnicom Group 's BBDO agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "California", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Glendale Federal Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 35]}, {"entity": "$ 12 million to $ 15 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [48, 76]}, {"entity": "Los Angeles", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 103]}, {"entity": "Omnicom Group 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [114, 130]}, {"entity": "BBDO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [131, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The account was previously handled by Davis , Ball & Colombatto Advertising Inc. , a Los Angeles agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "Davis , Ball & Colombatto Advertising Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 80]}, {"entity": "Los Angeles", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "ACCOUNT REVIEW :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Royal Crown Cola Co. has ended its relationship with the Boston office of Hill , Holliday , Connors , Cosmopulos .", "entity": [{"entity": "Royal Crown Cola Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "Boston", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 63]}, {"entity": "Hill , Holliday , Connors , Cosmopulos", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The account had billed about $ 6 million in 1988 , according to Leading National Advertisers .", "entity": [{"entity": "about $ 6 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [23, 40]}, {"entity": "1988", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 48]}, {"entity": "Leading National Advertisers", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As expected , Young & Rubicam Inc. along with two senior executives and a former employee , pleaded not guilty in federal court in New Haven , Conn. , to conspiracy and racketeering charges .", "entity": [{"entity": "Young & Rubicam Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 34]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [46, 49]}, {"entity": "New Haven", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [131, 140]}, {"entity": "Conn.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The government has charged that they bribed Jamaican officials to win the Jamaica Tourist Board ad account in 1981 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jamaican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 52]}, {"entity": "Jamaica Tourist Board", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 95]}, {"entity": "1981", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [110, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney 's office said extradition proceedings are `` just beginning '' for the other two defendants in the case , Eric Anthony Abrahams , former Jamaican tourism minister , and Jamaican businessman Arnold Foote Jr .", "entity": [{"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 24]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [112, 115]}, {"entity": "Eric Anthony Abrahams", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [141, 162]}, {"entity": "Jamaican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [172, 180]}, {"entity": "Jamaican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [204, 212]}, {"entity": "Arnold Foote Jr", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [225, 240]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Samsung Group and Bozell Inc. agreed to establish a joint venture advertising agency in South Korea .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Samsung Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "Bozell Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 33]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bozell Cheil Corp. , as the new agency will be called , will be based in Seoul and is 70 % owned by Samsung and 30 % owned by Bozell .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bozell Cheil Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Seoul", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 78]}, {"entity": "70 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [86, 90]}, {"entity": "Samsung", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 107]}, {"entity": "30 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [112, 116]}, {"entity": "Bozell", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [126, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Samsung already owns Korea First Advertising Co. , that country 's largest agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "Samsung", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Korea First Advertising Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Bozell joins Backer Spielvogel Bates and Ogilvy Group as U.S. agencies with interests in Korean agencies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bozell", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Backer Spielvogel Bates", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 36]}, {"entity": "Ogilvy Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 53]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 61]}, {"entity": "Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [89, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moody 's Investors Service said it reduced its rating on $ 165 million of subordinated debt of this Beverly Hills , Calif. , thrift , citing turmoil in the market for low - grade , high - yield securities .", "entity": [{"entity": "Moody 's Investors Service", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 26]}, {"entity": "$ 165 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [57, 70]}, {"entity": "Beverly Hills", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 113]}, {"entity": "Calif.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [116, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The agency said it reduced its rating on the thrift 's subordinated debt to B - 2 from Ba - 2 and will keep the debt under review for possible further downgrade .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Columbia Savings is a major holder of so - called junk bonds .", "entity": [{"entity": "Columbia Savings", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "New federal legislation requires that all thrifts divest themselves of such speculative securities over a period of years .", "entity": [{"entity": "a period of years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [104, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Columbia Savings officials were n't available for comment on the downgrade .", "entity": [{"entity": "Columbia Savings", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "FRANKLIN SAVINGS ASSOCIATION ( Ottawa , Kan. ) --", "entity": [{"entity": "FRANKLIN SAVINGS ASSOCIATION", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 28]}, {"entity": "Ottawa", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 37]}, {"entity": "Kan.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moody 's Investors Service Inc. said it downgraded its rating to B - 2 from Ba - 3 on less than $ 20 million of this thrift 's senior subordinated notes .", "entity": [{"entity": "Moody 's Investors Service Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 31]}, {"entity": "less than $ 20 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [86, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The rating concern said Franklin 's `` troubled diversification record in the securities business '' was one reason for the downgrade , citing the troubles at its L.F. Rothschild subsidiary and the possible sale of other subsidiaries .", "entity": [{"entity": "Franklin", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 32]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [105, 108]}, {"entity": "L.F. Rothschild", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [163, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` They perhaps had concern that we were getting out of all these , '' said Franklin President Duane H. Hall .", "entity": [{"entity": "Franklin", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 84]}, {"entity": "Duane H. Hall", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [95, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I think it was a little premature on their part .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was Friday the 13th , and the stock market plummeted nearly 200 points .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday the 13th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [7, 22]}, {"entity": "nearly 200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [56, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just a coincidence ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In academia , a so - called Friday the 13th effect has been set up and shot down by different professors .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday the 13th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Robert Kolb and Ricardo Rodriguez , professors of finance at the University of Miami , found evidence that the market is spooked by Friday the 13th .", "entity": [{"entity": "Robert Kolb", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Ricardo Rodriguez", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 33]}, {"entity": "the University of Miami", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 84]}, {"entity": "Friday the 13th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [132, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But their study , which spanned the 1962 - 85 period , has since been shown to be jinxed by an unlucky choice of data .", "entity": [{"entity": "1962 - 85", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [36, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But the date tends to be a plus , not a minus , for stocks , according to Yale Hirsch , a collector of stock market lore .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yale Hirsch", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [74, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another study found that the 82 Fridays the 13th in the 1940 - 1987 period had higher than average returns -- higher even than Fridays in general , which tend to be strong days for stock prices .", "entity": [{"entity": "82", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [29, 31]}, {"entity": "Fridays the 13th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 48]}, {"entity": "1940 - 1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 67]}, {"entity": "Fridays", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [127, 134]}, {"entity": "days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [172, 176]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the only other Friday the 13th this year , the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about four points .", "entity": [{"entity": "the only other Friday the 13th this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 43]}, {"entity": "about four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [84, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Professor Kolb says the original study , titled Friday the 13th , Part VII , was published tongue - in - cheek .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kolb", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Friday the 13th , Part VII", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [48, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In a similar vein , he adds that the anniversary of the 1987 crash and Saturday 's full moon could have played a part , too , in Friday 's market activity .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 60]}, {"entity": "Saturday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [71, 79]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [129, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Southmark Corp. said that it filed part of its 10 - K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission , but that the filing does n't include its audited financial statements and related information .", "entity": [{"entity": "Southmark Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "the Securities and Exchange Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [66, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The real estate and thrift concern , operating under bankruptcy - law proceedings , said it told the SEC it could n't provide financial statements by the end of its first extension `` without unreasonable burden or expense . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "SEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [101, 104]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [165, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company asked for a 15 - day extension Sept. 30 , when the financial reports were due .", "entity": [{"entity": "15 - day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [24, 32]}, {"entity": "Sept. 30", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Southmark said it plans to amend its 10K to provide financial results as soon as its audit is completed .", "entity": [{"entity": "Southmark", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ford Motor Co. said it acquired 5 % of the shares in Jaguar PLC .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ford Motor Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [32, 35]}, {"entity": "Jaguar PLC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jaguar , the London Stock Exchange and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are being notified of the transactions , the company said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jaguar", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "the London Stock Exchange", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 34]}, {"entity": "the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission advised Ford last week that it would n't raise any objection to the acquisition of as much as 15 % of Jaguar shares .", "entity": [{"entity": "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 33]}, {"entity": "Ford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 46]}, {"entity": "last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 56]}, {"entity": "as much as 15 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [117, 132]}, {"entity": "Jaguar", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [136, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The No. 2 auto maker disclosed last month that it wants to buy as much as 15 % of the British luxury - car maker , the maximum allowed under current United Kingdom government restrictions .", "entity": [{"entity": "2", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [8, 9]}, {"entity": "last month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 41]}, {"entity": "as much as 15 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [63, 78]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [86, 93]}, {"entity": "United Kingdom", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [149, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "General Motors Corp. said it had discussed the possibility of a joint venture with Jaguar before Ford began buying shares .", "entity": [{"entity": "General Motors Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "Jaguar", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [83, 89]}, {"entity": "Ford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Sharp increases in the price of fresh produce caused Spain 's September consumer price index to shoot up 1.1 % from the previous month , pushing the annual rate of inflation to 6.8 % , the National Institute of Statistics said Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Spain", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 58]}, {"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 71]}, {"entity": "1.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [105, 110]}, {"entity": "the previous month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [116, 134]}, {"entity": "annual", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [149, 155]}, {"entity": "6.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [177, 182]}, {"entity": "the National Institute of Statistics", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [185, 221]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [227, 233]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Prices have risen 5.9 % in the first nine months of the year , outstripping both the initial 3 % inflation goal set by the government of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and the second , revised goal of 5.8 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "5.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [18, 23]}, {"entity": "the first nine months of the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [27, 60]}, {"entity": "3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [93, 96]}, {"entity": "Socialist", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [137, 146]}, {"entity": "Felipe Gonzalez", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [162, 177]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [186, 192]}, {"entity": "5.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [211, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Measuring cups may soon be replaced by tablespoons in the laundry room .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Procter & Gamble Co. plans to begin testing next month a superconcentrated detergent that will require only a few spoonfuls per washload .", "entity": [{"entity": "Procter & Gamble Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "next month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 54]}, {"entity": "only a few spoonfuls", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [103, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The move stems from lessons learned in Japan where local competitors have had phenomenal success with concentrated soapsuds .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It also marks P&G 's growing concern that its Japanese rivals , such as Kao Corp. , may bring their superconcentrates to the U.S. .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 17]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [46, 54]}, {"entity": "Kao Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [72, 81]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [125, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Cincinnati consumer - products giant got clobbered two years ago in Japan when Kao introduced a powerful detergent , called Attack , which quickly won a 30 % stake in the Japanese markets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cincinnati", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 68]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 77]}, {"entity": "Kao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [83, 86]}, {"entity": "Attack", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [128, 134]}, {"entity": "30 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [157, 161]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [175, 183]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` They do n't want to get caught again , '' says one industry watcher .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [50, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Retailers in Phoenix , Ariz. , say P&G 's new powdered detergent -- to be called Cheer with Color Guard -- will be on shelves in that market by early November .", "entity": [{"entity": "Phoenix", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 20]}, {"entity": "Ariz.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 28]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 38]}, {"entity": "Cheer with Color Guard", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [81, 103]}, {"entity": "early November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [144, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A P&G spokeswoman confirmed that shipments to Phoenix started late last month .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [2, 5]}, {"entity": "Phoenix", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 53]}, {"entity": "late last month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [62, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "She said the company will study results from this market before expanding to others .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Superconcentrates are n't entirely new for P&G .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company introduced a superconcentrated Lemon Cheer in Japan after watching the success of Attack .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lemon Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [43, 54]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [58, 63]}, {"entity": "Attack", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [94, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When Attack hit the shelves in 1987 , P&G 's share of the Japanese market fell to about 8 % from more than 20 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "Attack", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [5, 11]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 35]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 41]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [58, 66]}, {"entity": "about 8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [82, 91]}, {"entity": "more than 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [97, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the help of Lemon Cheer , P&G 's share is now estimated to be 12 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lemon Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [17, 28]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 34]}, {"entity": "12 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [67, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While the Japanese have embraced the compact packaging and convenience of concentrated products , the true test for P&G will be in the $ 4 billion U.S. detergent market , where growth is slow and liquids have gained prominence over powders .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [10, 18]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 119]}, {"entity": "$ 4 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [135, 146]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [147, 151]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company may have chosen to market the product under the Cheer name since it 's already expanded its best - selling Tide into 16 different varieties , including this year 's big hit , Tide with Bleach .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [60, 65]}, {"entity": "Tide", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [119, 123]}, {"entity": "16", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [129, 131]}, {"entity": "year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [169, 173]}, {"entity": "Tide with Bleach", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [187, 203]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With superconcentrates , however , it is n't always easy to persuade consumers that less is more ; many people tend to dump too much detergent into the washing machine , believing that it takes a cup of powder to really clean the laundry .", "entity": [{"entity": "a cup", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [194, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the early 1980s , P&G tried to launch here a concentrated detergent under the Ariel brand name that it markets in Europe .", "entity": [{"entity": "the early 1980s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 18]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 24]}, {"entity": "Ariel", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [81, 86]}, {"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [117, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the product , which was n't as concentrated as the new Cheer , bombed in a market test in Denver and was dropped .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [59, 64]}, {"entity": "Denver", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "P&G and others also have tried repeatedly to hook consumers on detergent and fabric softener combinations in pouches , but they have n't sold well , despite the convenience .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But P&G contends the new Cheer is a unique formula that also offers an ingredient that prevents colors from fading .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [25, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And retailers are expected to embrace the product , in part because it will take up less shelf space .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` When shelf space was cheap , bigger was better , '' says Hugh Zurkuhlen , an analyst at Salomon Bros .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hugh Zurkuhlen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 74]}, {"entity": "Salomon Bros", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But with so many brands vying for space , that 's no longer the case .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the new Cheer sells well , the trend toward smaller packaging is likely to accelerate as competitors follow with their own superconcentrates .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cheer", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [11, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then retailers `` will probably push the { less - established } brands out altogether , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Competition is bound to get tougher if Kao introduces a product like Attack in the U.S. .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 42]}, {"entity": "Attack", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [69, 75]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [83, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To be sure , Kao would n't have an easy time taking U.S. market share away from the mighty P&G , which has about 23 % of the market .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 16]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 94]}, {"entity": "about 23 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [107, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kao officials previously have said they are interested in selling detergents in the U.S. , but so far the company has focused on acquisitions , such as last year 's purchase of Andrew Jergens Co. , a Cincinnati hand - lotion maker .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 88]}, {"entity": "last year 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [152, 164]}, {"entity": "Andrew Jergens Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [177, 195]}, {"entity": "Cincinnati", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [200, 210]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It also has a product - testing facility in California .", "entity": [{"entity": "California", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some believe P&G 's interest in a superconcentrated detergent goes beyond the concern for the Japanese .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 16]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [94, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` This is something P&G would do with or without Kao , '' says Mr. Zurkuhlen .", "entity": [{"entity": "P&G", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 24]}, {"entity": "Kao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 53]}, {"entity": "Zurkuhlen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. said it agreed to pay $ 1.5 million as part of an accord with the Environmental Protection Agency regarding an environmental cleanup of a defunct smelter the company formerly operated in Idaho .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 31]}, {"entity": "$ 1.5 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [54, 67]}, {"entity": "the Environmental Protection Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [94, 129]}, {"entity": "Idaho", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [219, 224]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1984 the EPA notified Gulf Resources , which was a part - owner of the smelter , that it was potentially liable for sharing cleanup costs at the site under the federal Superfund program .", "entity": [{"entity": "1984", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "EPA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Gulf Resources", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [25, 39]}, {"entity": "Superfund", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The 21 - square - mile area is contaminated with lead , zinc and other metals .", "entity": [{"entity": "21 - square - mile", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [4, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gulf Resources earlier this year proposed a reorganization plan that would make it a unit of a Bermuda concern , potentially exempting it from liability for the smelter 's cleanup costs .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf Resources", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "earlier this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [15, 32]}, {"entity": "Bermuda", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company said that as part of its agreement with the EPA , it `` made certain voluntary undertakings with respect to intercorporate transactions entered into after the reorganization . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "EPA", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company , which issued a statement on the agreement late Friday , said that $ 1 million of the payment was previously provided for in its financial statements and that $ 500,000 will be recognized in its 1989 third - quarter statement .", "entity": [{"entity": "late Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 67]}, {"entity": "$ 1 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [80, 91]}, {"entity": "500,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [174, 181]}, {"entity": "1989 third - quarter", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [208, 228]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The agreement and consent decree are subject to court approval , the company said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gulf Resources added that it `` will seek to recover equitable contribution from others for both the amount of the settlement and any other liabilities it may incur under the Superfund law . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf Resources", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Superfund", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [175, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Under the agreement , Gulf must give the U.S. government 45 days ' advance written notice before issuing any dividends on common stock .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 26]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 45]}, {"entity": "45 days '", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [57, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company 's net worth can not fall below $ 185 million after the dividends are issued .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 185 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [44, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The terms of that agreement only become effective the date of Gulf 's reorganization , which we anticipate will occur sometime in early 1990 , '' said Lawrence R. Mehl , Gulf 's general counsel .", "entity": [{"entity": "the date", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 61]}, {"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 69]}, {"entity": "early 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [133, 143]}, {"entity": "Lawrence R. Mehl", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [154, 170]}, {"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [173, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , Gulf must give the government 20 days ' advance written notice of any loans exceeding $ 50 million that are made to the Bermuda - based holding company .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 18]}, {"entity": "20 days '", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 53]}, {"entity": "$ 50 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [100, 112]}, {"entity": "Bermuda", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [134, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gulf 's net worth after those transaction must be at least $ 150 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gulf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "at least $ 150 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [50, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Separately , the company said it expects to hold a special meeting for shareholders in early 1990 to vote on its proposed reorganization .", "entity": [{"entity": "early 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [87, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The official White House reaction to a plunge in stock prices has a 60 - year history of calm , right up through Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 24]}, {"entity": "60 - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 77]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [113, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said in a statement Friday that the stock - market decline `` does n't signal any fundamental change in the condition of the economy . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Treasury", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Nicholas Brady", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 33]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [54, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The economy , '' he added , `` remains well - balanced and the outlook is for continued moderate growth . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sound familiar ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here 's what Ronald Reagan said after the 1987 crash : `` The underlying economy remains sound .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ronald Reagan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 26]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [42, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There is nothing wrong with the economy ... all the indices are up . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Heard that before ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After the 1929 crash , Herbert Hoover said : `` The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis .", "entity": [{"entity": "1929", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Herbert Hoover", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The government sold the deposits of four savings - and - loan institutions , in its first wave of sales of big , sick thrifts , but low bids prevented the sale of a fifth .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [36, 40]}, {"entity": "fifth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [165, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The four S&Ls were sold to large banks , as was the case with most of the 28 previous transactions initiated by the Resolution Trust Corp. since it was created in the S&L bailout legislation two months ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "28", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 76]}, {"entity": "the Resolution Trust Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [112, 138]}, {"entity": "two months ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [191, 205]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Two of the four big thrifts were sold to NCNB Corp. , Charlotte , N.C. , which has aggressively expanded its markets , particularly in Texas and Florida .", "entity": [{"entity": "Two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [11, 15]}, {"entity": "NCNB Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 51]}, {"entity": "Charlotte", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [54, 63]}, {"entity": "N.C.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 70]}, {"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [135, 140]}, {"entity": "Florida", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [145, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A Canadian bank bought another thrift , in the first RTC transaction with a foreign bank .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [2, 10]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Under these deals , the RTC sells just the deposits and the healthy assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These `` clean - bank '' transactions leave the bulk of bad assets , mostly real estate , with the government , to be sold later .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In these four , for instance , the RTC is stuck with $ 4.51 billion in bad assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [9, 13]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 38]}, {"entity": "$ 4.51 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [53, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Acquirers paid premiums ranging from 1.5 % to 3.7 % for the deposits and branch systems , roughly in line with what analysts were expecting .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.5 % to 3.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [37, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The buyers will also be locked into deposit rates for just two weeks , as has been the case with previous deals .", "entity": [{"entity": "two weeks", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After that , the buyers may repudiate the rates paid by the former thrifts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it 's uncertain whether these institutions will take those steps .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB , for example , has been one of the highest rate payers in the Texas market , and in Florida , rates are especially sensitive in retirement communities .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [68, 73]}, {"entity": "Florida", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The RTC had previously targeted five thrifts for quick sales in order to spend cash by certain budgetary deadlines , but the delays illustrate the tough chore facing the agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 7]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [32, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` These thrifts are beached whales , '' said Bert Ely , an industry consultant based in Alexandria , Va .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bert Ely", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 54]}, {"entity": "Alexandria", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 99]}, {"entity": "Va", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [102, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For example , the delay in selling People 's Heritage Savings , Salina , Kan. , with $ 1.7 billion in assets , has forced the RTC to consider selling off the thrift branch - by - branch , instead of as a whole institution .", "entity": [{"entity": "People 's Heritage Savings", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 61]}, {"entity": "Salina", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 70]}, {"entity": "Kan.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 77]}, {"entity": "$ 1.7 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [85, 98]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [126, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB continued its foray into the Florida and Texas markets .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Florida", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 41]}, {"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB will acquire University Federal Savings Association , Houston , which had assets of $ 2.8 billion .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "University Federal Savings Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 56]}, {"entity": "Houston", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 66]}, {"entity": "$ 2.8 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [89, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB Texas National Bank will pay the RTC a premium of $ 129 million for $ 3.5 billion in deposits .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB Texas National Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 24]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 41]}, {"entity": "$ 129 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [55, 68]}, {"entity": "$ 3.5 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [73, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a measure of the depths to which the Texas real estate market has sunk , the RTC will pay $ 3.8 billion to NCNB to take $ 750 million of bad assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 45]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 83]}, {"entity": "$ 3.8 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [93, 106]}, {"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 114]}, {"entity": "$ 750 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [123, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB also acquired Freedom Savings & Loan Association , Tampa , Fla. , which had total assets of $ 900 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Freedom Savings & Loan Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 53]}, {"entity": "Tampa", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "Fla.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 68]}, {"entity": "$ 900 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [97, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB will pay the RTC a premium of $ 40.4 million for $ 1.1 billion in deposits .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 21]}, {"entity": "$ 40.4 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [35, 49]}, {"entity": "$ 1.1 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [54, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "NCNB will also acquire $ 266 million of Freedom 's assets from the RTC , which will require $ 875 million in assistance .", "entity": [{"entity": "NCNB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "$ 266 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [23, 36]}, {"entity": "Freedom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 47]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [67, 70]}, {"entity": "$ 875 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [92, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meridian Bancorp Inc. , Reading , Pa. , will acquire Hill Financial Savings Association , Red Hill , Pa. , which had $ 2.3 billion in assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Meridian Bancorp Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 21]}, {"entity": "Reading", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 31]}, {"entity": "Pa.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 37]}, {"entity": "Hill Financial Savings Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 87]}, {"entity": "Red Hill", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 98]}, {"entity": "Pa.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 104]}, {"entity": "$ 2.3 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [117, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "It will also purchase $ 845 million of the thrift 's assets , with $ 1.9 billion in RTC assistance .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 845 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [22, 35]}, {"entity": "$ 1.9 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [67, 80]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [84, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the first RTC transaction with a foreign buyer , Royal Trustco Ltd. , Toronto , will acquire Pacific Savings Bank , Costa Mesa , Calif. , which had $ 949 million in assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 16]}, {"entity": "Royal Trustco Ltd.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 70]}, {"entity": "Toronto", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 80]}, {"entity": "Pacific Savings Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [96, 116]}, {"entity": "Costa Mesa", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 129]}, {"entity": "Calif.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 138]}, {"entity": "$ 949 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [151, 164]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Royal Trustco will pay the RTC $ 25 million to assume $ 989 million in deposits .", "entity": [{"entity": "Royal Trustco", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "RTC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 30]}, {"entity": "$ 25 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [31, 43]}, {"entity": "$ 989 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [54, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Pension funds , insurers and other behemoths of the investing world said they began scooping up stocks during Friday 's market rout .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [110, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Rightly or wrongly , many giant institutional investors appear to be fighting the latest war by applying the lesson they learned in the October 1987 crash : Buying at the bottom pays off .", "entity": [{"entity": "October 1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [136, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To be sure , big investors might put away their checkbooks in a hurry if stocks open sharply lower today .", "entity": [{"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [99, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They could still panic and bail out of the market .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But their 1987 performance indicates that they wo n't abandon stocks unless conditions get far worse .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [10, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Last time , we got rewarded for going out and buying stocks when the panic was the worst , '' said John W. Rogers , president of Chicago - based Ariel Capital Management Inc. , which manages $ 1.1 billion of stocks .", "entity": [{"entity": "John W. Rogers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [102, 116]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 139]}, {"entity": "Ariel Capital Management Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [148, 177]}, {"entity": "$ 1.1 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [194, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Rogers spent half his cash on hand Friday for `` our favorite stocks that have fallen apart . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Rogers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He expects to invest the rest if the market weakens further .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Denver - based portfolio manager James Craig was n't daunted when Friday 's rout shaved $ 40 million from the value of the $ 752 million Janus Fund he oversees .", "entity": [{"entity": "Denver", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "James Craig", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 44]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [66, 72]}, {"entity": "$ 40 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [88, 100]}, {"entity": "$ 752 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [123, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I waited to make sure all the program trades had kicked through , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` I spent $ 30 million in the last half - hour . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 30 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [11, 23]}, {"entity": "the last half - hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [27, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Other money managers also opened their wallets .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I was buying at the close ( Friday ) and I 'll be buying again because I know we 're getting good value , '' said Frederick A. Moran , president of Moran Asset Management Inc. , Greenwich , Conn .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 37]}, {"entity": "Frederick A. Moran", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [117, 135]}, {"entity": "Moran Asset Management Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [151, 178]}, {"entity": "Greenwich", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [181, 190]}, {"entity": "Conn", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [193, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There is no justification on the fundamental level for this crash . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unlike mutual funds , which can be forced to sell stockholdings when investors rush to withdraw money , big investors such as pension funds and insurance companies can decide to ride out market storms without jettisoning stock .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Most often , they do just that , because stocks have proved to be the best - performing long - term investment , attracting about $ 1 trillion from pension funds alone .", "entity": [{"entity": "about $ 1 trillion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [124, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` If you bought after the crash , you did very very well off the bottom , '' said Stephen B. Timbers , chief investment officer of Chicago - based Kemper Financial Services Inc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Stephen B. Timbers", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 101]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 139]}, {"entity": "Kemper Financial Services Inc", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [148, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The $ 56 billion California Public Employees Retirement System , for one , added $ 1 billion to its stock portfolio two years ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 56 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [4, 16]}, {"entity": "California Public Employees Retirement System", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 62]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [69, 72]}, {"entity": "$ 1 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [81, 92]}, {"entity": "two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [116, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The last crash taught institutional investors that they have to be long - term holders , and that they ca n't react to short - term events , good or bad , '' said Stephen L. Nesbitt , senior vice president for the pension consultants Wilshire Associates in Santa Monica , Calif .", "entity": [{"entity": "Stephen L. Nesbitt", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [166, 184]}, {"entity": "Wilshire Associates", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [237, 256]}, {"entity": "Santa Monica", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [260, 272]}, {"entity": "Calif", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [275, 280]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Those that pulled out ( of stocks ) regretted it , '' he said , `` so I doubt you 'll see any significant changes '' in institutional portfolios as a result of Friday 's decline .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [163, 169]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Stocks , as measured by the Standard & Poor 's 500 - stock index , have been stellar performers this year , rising 27.97 % before Friday 's plunge , excluding dividends .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Standard & Poor 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 46]}, {"entity": "500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [47, 50]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [96, 105]}, {"entity": "27.97 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [115, 122]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [130, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` You could go down 400 points and still have a good year in the market , '' said James D. Awad , president of New York - based BMI Capital Corp .", "entity": [{"entity": "400", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 24]}, {"entity": "a good year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 58]}, {"entity": "James D. Awad", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 96]}, {"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 120]}, {"entity": "BMI Capital Corp", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [129, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Awad , however , worries that the market `` could go down 800 or 900 points in the next few days .", "entity": [{"entity": "Awad", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "800", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [62, 65]}, {"entity": "900", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [69, 72]}, {"entity": "the next few days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [83, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It can happen before you can turn around . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said he discerns many parallels with 1987 , including the emphasis on takeover stocks and the re-emergence of computerized program trading .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` The only thing you do n't have , '' he said , `` is the ` portfolio insurance ' phenomenon overlaid on the rest . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Most institutional investors have abandoned the portfolio insurance hedging technique , which is widely thought to have worsened the 1987 crash .", "entity": [{"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [133, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Not really insurance , this tactic was designed to soften the blow of declining stock prices and generate an offsetting profit by selling waves of S&P futures contracts .", "entity": [{"entity": "S&P", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [147, 150]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In its severest test , the $ 60 billion of portfolio insurance in effect in the 1987 crash did n't work , as stock buyers disappeared and stock and futures prices became disconnected .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 60 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [27, 39]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [80, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even without portfolio insurance , market conditions were grim Friday , money managers said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Neil Weisman , whose New York - based Chilmark Capital Partners had converted 85 % of its $ 220 million investment pool to cash in recent months , said he was besieged by Wall Street firms Friday asking him to take stock off their hands .", "entity": [{"entity": "Neil Weisman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "New York", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "Chilmark Capital Partners", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 63]}, {"entity": "85 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [78, 82]}, {"entity": "$ 220 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [90, 103]}, {"entity": "recent months", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [131, 144]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [189, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We got calls from big block houses asking us if we want to make bids on anything , '' said Mr. Weisman , who , happy with his returns on investments chalked up earlier , declined the offers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weisman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [98, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Weisman predicts stocks will appear to stabilize in the next few days before declining again , trapping more investors .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weisman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "the next few days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I think it will be a rigor mortis rally , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meanwhile , Friday brought a reprieve for money managers whose investment styles had put them at odds with the market rally .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Especially gleeful were the short sellers , who have been pounded by this year 's market climb .", "entity": [{"entity": "year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [74, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The shorts sell borrowed shares , hoping to profit by replacing them later at a lower price .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The nation 's largest short - selling operation is Feshbach Brothers , Palo Alto , Calif. , which said last May that its short positions had shown losses of 10 % for the year up to that point .", "entity": [{"entity": "Feshbach Brothers", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [51, 68]}, {"entity": "Palo Alto", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 80]}, {"entity": "Calif.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [83, 89]}, {"entity": "last May", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [103, 111]}, {"entity": "10 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [157, 161]}, {"entity": "the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [166, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All that now has changed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We 're ahead for the year because of Friday , '' said the firm 's Kurt Feshbach .", "entity": [{"entity": "the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 28]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 46]}, {"entity": "Kurt Feshbach", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We 're not making a killing , but we had a good day .", "entity": [{"entity": "a good day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [44, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Call it the `` we 're too broke to fight '' defense .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lawyers for dozens of insolvent savings and loan associations are trying a new tack in their efforts to defuse suits filed by borrowers , developers and creditors .", "entity": [{"entity": "dozens", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The thrifts ' lawyers claim that the suits , numbering 700 to 1,000 in Texas alone , should be dismissed as moot because neither the S&Ls nor the extinct Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. has the money to pay judgments .", "entity": [{"entity": "700 to 1,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 67]}, {"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 76]}, {"entity": "Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [154, 194]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Though the argument may have a common - sense ring to it , even the S&L lawyers concede there 's little precedent to back their position .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Still , one federal appeals court has signaled it 's willing to entertain the notion , and the lawyers have renewed their arguments in Texas and eight other states where the defense is permitted under state law .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [8, 11]}, {"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [135, 140]}, {"entity": "eight", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [145, 150]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The dismissal of the pending suits could go a long way toward clearing court dockets in Texas and reducing the FSLIC 's massive legal bills , which topped $ 73 million last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Texas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 93]}, {"entity": "FSLIC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 116]}, {"entity": "$ 73 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [155, 167]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [168, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The S&L lawyers were encouraged last month by an appellate - court ruling in two cases brought against defunct Sunbelt Savings & Loan Association of Dallas by the developers of the Valley Ranch , best known as the training center for the Dallas Cowboys football team .", "entity": [{"entity": "last month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 42]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [77, 80]}, {"entity": "Sunbelt Savings & Loan Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 145]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [149, 155]}, {"entity": "the Valley Ranch", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [177, 193]}, {"entity": "Dallas Cowboys", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [238, 252]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Sunbelt and the FSLIC argued to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals `` that there will never be any assets with which to satisfy a judgment against Sunbelt Savings nor any means to collect from any other party , including FSLIC . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunbelt", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "FSLIC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 21]}, {"entity": "the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [32, 71]}, {"entity": "Sunbelt Savings", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [152, 167]}, {"entity": "FSLIC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [226, 231]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` If true , '' the court wrote , `` this contention would justify dismissal of these actions on prudential grounds . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But the court said it lacked enough financial information about Sunbelt and the FSLIC and sent the cases back to federal district court in Dallas .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sunbelt", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 71]}, {"entity": "FSLIC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 85]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Charles Haworth , a lawyer for Sunbelt , says he plans to file a brief this week urging the district judge to dismiss the suits , because Sunbelt 's liabilities exceeded its assets by about $ 2 billion when federal regulators closed it in August 1988 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Charles Haworth", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Sunbelt", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 38]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [71, 80]}, {"entity": "Sunbelt", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [138, 145]}, {"entity": "about $ 2 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [184, 201]}, {"entity": "August 1988", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [239, 250]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` This institution is just brain dead , '' says Mr. Haworth , a partner in the Dallas office of Andrews & Kurth , a Houston law firm .", "entity": [{"entity": "Haworth", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [53, 60]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 86]}, {"entity": "Andrews & Kurth", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 112]}, {"entity": "Houston", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But a lawyer for Triland Investment Group , the developer of Valley Ranch , dismisses such arguments as a `` defense du jour . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Triland Investment Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 41]}, {"entity": "Valley Ranch", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [61, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Attorney Richard Jackson of Dallas says a judgment for Triland could be satisfied in ways other than a monetary award , including the reversal of Sunbelt 's foreclosure on Valley Ranch .", "entity": [{"entity": "Richard Jackson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 24]}, {"entity": "Dallas", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 34]}, {"entity": "Triland", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 62]}, {"entity": "Sunbelt", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [146, 153]}, {"entity": "Valley Ranch", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [172, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We 're asking the court for a number of things he can grant in addition to the thrill of victory , '' he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Kenneth J. Thygerson , who was named president of this thrift holding company in August , resigned , citing personal reasons .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kenneth J. Thygerson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [81, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Thygerson said he had planned to travel between the job in Denver and his San Diego home , but has found the commute too difficult to continue .", "entity": [{"entity": "Thygerson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 13]}, {"entity": "Denver", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 69]}, {"entity": "San Diego", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A new president was n't named .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Senate 's decision to approve a bare - bones deficit - reduction bill without a capital - gains tax cut still leaves open the possibility of enacting a gains tax reduction this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [176, 185]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Lawmakers drastically streamlined the bill to blunt criticism that it was bloated with special - interest tax breaks and spending increases .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But Senate supporters of the trimmer legislation said that other bills would soon be moving through Congress that could carry some of the measures that had been cast aside , including a capital - gains tax cut .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` No one can predict exactly what will happen on the House side , '' said Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole ( R. , Kan . ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [54, 59]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [75, 81]}, {"entity": "Robert Dole", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [98, 109]}, {"entity": "R.", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [112, 114]}, {"entity": "Kan .", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But , he added , `` I believe Republicans and Democrats will work together to get capital - gains reform this year . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 41]}, {"entity": "Democrats", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [46, 55]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [105, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "White House Budget Director Richard Darman told reporters yesterday that the administration would n't push to keep the capital - gains cut in the final version of the bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Richard Darman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 42]}, {"entity": "yesterday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` We do n't need this as a way to get capital gains , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta ( D. , Calif . ) said in an interview , `` If that 's the signal that comes from the White House , that will help a great deal . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "House Budget Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "Leon Panetta", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 44]}, {"entity": "D.", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [47, 49]}, {"entity": "Calif .", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 59]}, {"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [126, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Senate 's decision was a setback for President Bush and will make approval of a capital - gains tax cut less certain this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 55]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [121, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell ( D. , Maine ) said he was `` confident '' that any House - Senate agreement on the deficit - reduction legislation would n't include a capital - gains tax cut .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "George Mitchell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 38]}, {"entity": "D.", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [41, 43]}, {"entity": "Maine", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And a senior aide to the House Ways and Means Committee , where tax legislation originates , said there are n't any `` plans to produce another tax bill that could carry a gains tax cut this year . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "the House Ways and Means Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 55]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [186, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One obvious place to attach a capital - gains tax cut , and perhaps other popular items stripped from the deficit - reduction bill , is the legislation to raise the federal borrowing limit .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Senate bill was pared back in an attempt to speed deficit - reduction through Congress .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because the legislation has n't been completed , President Bush has until midnight tonight to enact across - the - board spending cuts mandated by the Gramm - Rudman deficit - reduction law .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 63]}, {"entity": "midnight tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [74, 90]}, {"entity": "Gramm - Rudman", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [151, 165]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Senators hope that the need to avoid those cuts will pressure the House to agree to the streamlined bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [66, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The House appears reluctant to join the senators .", "entity": [{"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A key is whether House Republicans are willing to acquiesce to their Senate colleagues ' decision to drop many pet provisions .", "entity": [{"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 22]}, {"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [23, 34]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Although I am encouraged by the Senate action , '' said Chairman Dan Rostenkowski ( D. , Ill . ) of the House Ways and Means Committee , `` it is uncertain whether a clean bill can be achieved in the upcoming conference with the Senate . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 41]}, {"entity": "Dan Rostenkowski", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [68, 84]}, {"entity": "D.", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [87, 89]}, {"entity": "Ill .", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 97]}, {"entity": "the House Ways and Means Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [103, 137]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [232, 238]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But Republican senators saw no way to overcome a procedural hurdle and garner the 60 votes needed to win the capital - gains issue on the floor , so they went ahead with the streamlined bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "Republican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "60", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [82, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Senate bill was stripped of many popular , though revenue - losing , provisions , a number of which are included in the House - passed bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [124, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These include a child - care initiative and extensions of soon - to - expire tax breaks for low - income housing and research - and - development expenditures .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Also missing from the Senate bill is the House 's repeal of a law , called Section 89 , that compels companies to give rank - and - file workers comparable health benefits to top paid executives .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 46]}, {"entity": "Section 89", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [75, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Mr. Bentsen said he hopes the Senate will consider that measure soon .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bentsen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 36]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To the delight of some doctors , the bill dropped a plan passed by the Finance Committee that would have overhauled the entire physician - reimbursement system under Medicare .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Finance Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [67, 88]}, {"entity": "Medicare", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [166, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To the detriment of many low - income people , efforts to boost Medicaid funding , especially in rural areas , also were stricken .", "entity": [{"entity": "Medicaid", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Asked why senators were giving up so much , New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici , the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee , said , `` We 're looking like idiots .", "entity": [{"entity": "New Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 54]}, {"entity": "Pete Domenici", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 73]}, {"entity": "Republican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 98]}, {"entity": "the Senate Budget Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [102, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Things had just gone too far . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sen. Dole said that the move required sacrifice by every senator .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dole", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It worked , others said , because there were no exceptions : all revenue - losing provisions were stricken .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Senate also dropped a plan by its Finance Committee that would have increased the income threshold beyond which senior citizens have their Social Security benefits reduced .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Finance Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 55]}, {"entity": "Social Security", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [143, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , the bill dropped a plan to make permanent a 3 % excise tax on long - distance telephone calls .", "entity": [{"entity": "3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [58, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It no longer includes a plan that would have repealed what remains of the completed - contract method of accounting , which is used by military contractors to reduce their tax burden .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Also stricken was a fivefold increase in the maximum Occupational Safety and Health Administration penalties , which would have raised $ 65 million in fiscal 1990 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Occupational Safety and Health Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 98]}, {"entity": "$ 65 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [135, 147]}, {"entity": "fiscal 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [151, 162]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A provision that would have made the Social Security Administration an independent agency was excised .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Social Security Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The approval of the Senate bill was especially sweet for Sen. Mitchell , who had proposed the streamlining .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 26]}, {"entity": "Mitchell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [62, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mr. Mitchell 's relations with Budget Director Darman , who pushed for a capital - gains cut to be added to the measure , have been strained since Mr. Darman chose to bypass the Maine Democrat and deal with other lawmakers earlier this year during a dispute over drug funding in the fiscal 1989 supplemental spending bill .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mitchell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "Darman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 53]}, {"entity": "Darman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [151, 157]}, {"entity": "Maine", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [178, 183]}, {"entity": "Democrat", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [184, 192]}, {"entity": "earlier this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [223, 240]}, {"entity": "fiscal 1989", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [283, 294]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The deficit reduction bill contains $ 5.3 billion in tax increases in fiscal 1990 , and $ 26 billion over five years .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 5.3 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [36, 49]}, {"entity": "fiscal 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [70, 81]}, {"entity": "$ 26 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [88, 100]}, {"entity": "five years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [106, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "-- Prevent companies that have made leveraged buy - outs from getting federal tax refunds resulting from losses caused by interest payments on debt issued to finance the buy - outs , effective Aug. 2 , 1989 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Aug. 2 , 1989", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [193, 206]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Require mutual funds to include in their taxable income dividends paid to them on the date that the dividends are declared rather than received , effective the day after the tax bill is enacted .", "entity": [{"entity": "the date", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [85, 93]}, {"entity": "the day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [159, 166]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Close a loophole regarding employee stock ownership plans , effective June 6 , 1989 , that has been exploited by investment bankers in corporate takeovers .", "entity": [{"entity": "June 6 , 1989", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [73, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The measure repeals a 50 % exclusion given to banks on the interest from loans used to acquire securities for an ESOP , if the ESOP owns less than 30 % of the employer 's stock .", "entity": [{"entity": "50 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [22, 26]}, {"entity": "less than 30 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [137, 151]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Curb junk bonds by ending tax benefits for certain securities , such as zero - coupon bonds , that postpone cash interest payments .", "entity": [{"entity": "zero", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [75, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Raise $ 851 million by suspending for one year an automatic reduction in airport and airway taxes .", "entity": [{"entity": "$ 851 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [9, 22]}, {"entity": "one year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [41, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Speed up the collection of the payroll tax from large companies , effective August 1990 .", "entity": [{"entity": "August 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [79, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Impose a tax on ozone - depleting chemicals , such as those used in air conditioners and in Styrofoam , beginning at $ 1.10 a pound starting next year .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.10", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [122, 126]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [144, 153]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Withhold income taxes from the paychecks of certain farm workers currently exempt from withholding .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Change the collection of gasoline excise taxes to weekly from semimonthly , effective next year .", "entity": [{"entity": "weekly", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 59]}, {"entity": "semimonthly", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 76]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [89, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Restrict the ability of real estate owners to escape taxes by swapping one piece of property for another instead of selling it for cash .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Increase to $ 6 a person from $ 3 the international air - passenger departure tax , and impose a $ 3 - a - person tax on international departures by commercial ships .", "entity": [{"entity": "6", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [17, 18]}, {"entity": "3", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [35, 36]}, {"entity": "3", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [102, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The measure also includes spending cuts and increases in federal fees .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "-- Removal of the U.S. Postal Service 's operating budget from the federal budget , reducing the deficit by $ 1.77 billion .", "entity": [{"entity": "the U.S. Postal Service 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 40]}, {"entity": "$ 1.77 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [108, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A similar provision is in the House version .", "entity": [{"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Authority for the Federal Aviation Administration to raise $ 239 million by charging fees for commercial airline - landing rights at New York 's LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International Airports , O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and National Airport in Washington .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Federal Aviation Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 52]}, {"entity": "$ 239 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [62, 75]}, {"entity": "New York 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 147]}, {"entity": "LaGuardia", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [148, 157]}, {"entity": "John F. Kennedy International Airports", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [162, 200]}, {"entity": "O'Hare International Airport", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [203, 231]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [235, 242]}, {"entity": "National Airport", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [247, 263]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [267, 277]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Increases in Nuclear Regulatory Commission fees totaling $ 54 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Nuclear Regulatory Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 45]}, {"entity": "$ 54 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [60, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Direction to the U.S. Coast Guard to collect $ 50 million from users of Coast Guard services .", "entity": [{"entity": "the U.S. Coast Guard", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 36]}, {"entity": "$ 50 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [48, 60]}, {"entity": "Coast Guard", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [75, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Raising an additional $ 43 million by increasing existing Federal Communications Commission fees and penalties and establishing new fees for amateur radio operators , ship stations and mobile radio facilities .", "entity": [{"entity": "an additional $ 43 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [11, 37]}, {"entity": "Federal Communications Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "John E. Yang contributed to this article .", "entity": [{"entity": "John E. Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The New York Stock Exchange said two securities will begin trading this week .", "entity": [{"entity": "The New York Stock Exchange", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 27]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [33, 36]}, {"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [67, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "AIM Telephones Inc. , a Parsippany , N.J. , telecommunications equipment supply company , started trading with the symbol AIM .", "entity": [{"entity": "AIM Telephones Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 19]}, {"entity": "Parsippany", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 34]}, {"entity": "N.J.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "AIM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [122, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Ideal Basic Industries Inc. said its directors reached an agreement in principle calling for HOFI North America Inc. to combine its North American cement holdings with Ideal in a transaction that will leave Ideal 's minority shareholders with 12.8 % of the combined company .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ideal Basic Industries Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 27]}, {"entity": "HOFI North America Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [93, 116]}, {"entity": "North American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [132, 146]}, {"entity": "Ideal", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [168, 173]}, {"entity": "Ideal", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [207, 212]}, {"entity": "12.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [243, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman Willard Butcher is a conservative banker and a loyal Republican , but on Friday morning he had few kind words for President Bush 's economic policy - making .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chase Manhattan Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "Willard Butcher", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 45]}, {"entity": "Republican", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [83, 93]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [103, 109]}, {"entity": "morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [110, 117]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [154, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There are some very significant issues out there , such as the fiscal deficit , the trade deficit , our relations with Japan , that have to be the subject of major initiatives , '' he said in an interview .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "-- By 11:59 p.m. tonight , President Bush must order $ 16 billion of automatic , across - the - board cuts in government spending to comply with the Gramm - Rudman budget law .", "entity": [{"entity": "11:59 p.m. tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [6, 24]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 41]}, {"entity": "$ 16 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [53, 65]}, {"entity": "Gramm - Rudman", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [149, 163]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "`` We simply do n't have strong leadership to try to reduce the deficit and make tough choices , '' House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta ( D. , Calif . ) said yesterday on NBC News 's `` Meet the Press . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "House Budget Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 122]}, {"entity": "Leon Panetta", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [132, 144]}, {"entity": "D.", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [147, 149]}, {"entity": "Calif .", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [152, 159]}, {"entity": "yesterday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [167, 176]}, {"entity": "NBC News 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [180, 191]}, {"entity": "Meet the Press", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [195, 209]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "-- The administration has sent out confusing signals about its response to a recent spate of airline takeovers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And he has kept mum on how his decision might affect a bid for United Airlines , which includes a big stake by British Airways PLC .", "entity": [{"entity": "United Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 78]}, {"entity": "British Airways PLC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some analysts say uncertainty about Washington 's anti-takeover policy was one reason that financing for the United Airlines takeover fell through -- the event that triggered the market drop .", "entity": [{"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 46]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [75, 78]}, {"entity": "United Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [109, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "But , barring further drops in the market this week , a similar outcome does n't seem likely this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "this week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [42, 51]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [93, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lawmakers and administration officials agree that Friday 's drop , by itself , is n't enough to force both sides back to the table to try to reach a deficit - reduction agreement that would be more serious and more far - reaching than last spring 's gimmick - ridden plan , which still is n't fully implemented .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [50, 56]}, {"entity": "last spring 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [235, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One of the biggest reasons that new talks are n't likely to come about is that , as everyone learned in 1987 , the economy and the market can survive a one - day 508 - point tumble .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "1987", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [104, 108]}, {"entity": "one - day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [152, 161]}, {"entity": "508", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [162, 165]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Everybody thought we were looking at a repetition of 1929 , that we were looking at a recession , '' Rep. Panetta said yesterday in an interview .", "entity": [{"entity": "1929", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [56, 60]}, {"entity": "Panetta", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [109, 116]}, {"entity": "yesterday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [122, 131]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Nevertheless , it clearly will take more than Friday 's 190 - point decline to overcome the bitter feelings that have developed between lawmakers and White House Budget Director Richard Darman over the capital - gains fight .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 52]}, {"entity": "190", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [56, 59]}, {"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [150, 161]}, {"entity": "Richard Darman", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [178, 192]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hill Democrats are particularly angry over Mr. Bush 's claim that the capital - gains cut was part of April 's budget accord and his insistence on combining it with the deficit - reduction legislation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hill", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Democrats", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [5, 14]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 51]}, {"entity": "April", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [102, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At the very moment that Senate Republicans were negotiating a deal to exclude capital gains from the deficit - reduction legislation , White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters that it was the president 's policy to include it .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 30]}, {"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 42]}, {"entity": "White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [135, 146]}, {"entity": "Marlin Fitzwater", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [157, 173]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When an agreement was reached to strip capital gains from the legislation , Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood , the ranking GOP member of the tax - writing Senate Finance Committee , hailed it .", "entity": [{"entity": "Oregon", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 82]}, {"entity": "Bob Packwood", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [88, 100]}, {"entity": "GOP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [115, 118]}, {"entity": "Senate Finance Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [147, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Asked if the administration agreed , he curtly replied : `` The adminstration will have to speak for itself . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Friday 's market tumble could spur action on reconciling the House and Senate versions of the deficit - reduction measure , a process that is n't expected to begin until tomorrow at the soonest .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 66]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 77]}, {"entity": "tomorrow", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [170, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Senate Republicans expressed the hope that the House would follow the lead of the Senate , which on Friday agreed to drop a variety of spending measures and tax breaks that would have increased the fiscal 1990 deficit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Republicans", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [7, 18]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 88]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [100, 106]}, {"entity": "fiscal 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [198, 209]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The White House Office of Management and Budget , whose calculations determine whether the Gramm - Rudman targets are met , estimated that the House - passed deficit - reduction measure would cut the fiscal 1990 shortfall by $ 6.2 billion , almost half of the Congressional Budget Office 's estimate of $ 11.0 billion .", "entity": [{"entity": "The White House Office of Management and Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 47]}, {"entity": "Gramm - Rudman", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [91, 105]}, {"entity": "House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [143, 148]}, {"entity": "fiscal 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [200, 211]}, {"entity": "$ 6.2 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [225, 238]}, {"entity": "almost half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [241, 252]}, {"entity": "the Congressional Budget Office 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [256, 290]}, {"entity": "$ 11.0 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [303, 317]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Rep. Panetta said that OMB 's figure would still be enough to avoid permanent across - the - board cuts , but added : `` We 're getting very close to the margins here . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Panetta", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 12]}, {"entity": "OMB", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No one in Washington was willing to take the blame for provoking Friday 's drop in the stock market .", "entity": [{"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 20]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Before the sun had set on Friday , Richard Rahn , the supply - side chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , issued a statement attributing the drop in stock prices to the Senate decision to postpone action on capital gains .", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [26, 32]}, {"entity": "Richard Rahn", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 47]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [91, 95]}, {"entity": "Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [96, 115]}, {"entity": "Senate", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [181, 187]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` Investors , who had been holding assets in anticipation of a more favorable time to sell , were spooked , '' he said .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There have been many preposterous reasons advanced to support a capital - gains tax cut , '' Sen. Mitchell said during his television appearance , `` but I suggest that is perhaps more than any of the others .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mitchell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [101, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Avis Inc. , following rival Hertz Corp. 's lead , said it is backing out of frequent - flier programs with three airlines .", "entity": [{"entity": "Avis Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Hertz Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 39]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [107, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Garden City , N.Y. , car - rental company said it wo n't renew contracts with NWA Inc. 's Northwest Airlines unit , Pan Am Corp. 's Pan American World Airways unit and Midway Airlines at the end of this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Garden City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "N.Y.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 22]}, {"entity": "NWA Inc. 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 93]}, {"entity": "Northwest Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [94, 112]}, {"entity": "Pan Am Corp. 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [120, 135]}, {"entity": "Pan American World Airways", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [136, 162]}, {"entity": "Midway Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [172, 187]}, {"entity": "the end of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [191, 211]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But it remains involved in programs with AMR Corp. 's American Airlines unit and Delta Air Lines .", "entity": [{"entity": "AMR Corp. 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 53]}, {"entity": "American Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [54, 71]}, {"entity": "Delta Air Lines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [81, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Industry estimates put Avis 's annual cost of all five programs at between $ 8 million and $ 14 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 27]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [50, 54]}, {"entity": "between $ 8 million and $ 14 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [67, 103]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A spokesman for Avis would n't specify the costs but said the three airlines being dropped account for `` far less than half '' of the total .", "entity": [{"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 20]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [62, 67]}, {"entity": "far less than half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [106, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Budget Rent a Car Corp. , of Chicago , and National Car Rental Systems Inc. , of Minneapolis , both said they had no plans to follow suit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Budget Rent a Car Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 23]}, {"entity": "Chicago", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 36]}, {"entity": "National Car Rental Systems Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 75]}, {"entity": "Minneapolis", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In fact , Budget indicated it saw some benefit to staying involved in these programs , in which renters earn frequent - flier miles and fliers can get car - rental discounts .", "entity": [{"entity": "Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` I can not see how this news by Hertz and Avis can not benefit Budget 's programs , '' said Bob Wilson , Budget 's vice president , marketing planning .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hertz", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [34, 39]}, {"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 48]}, {"entity": "Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 71]}, {"entity": "Bob Wilson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 104]}, {"entity": "Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [107, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Northwest and Midway are two of the five airlines with which Budget has agreements .", "entity": [{"entity": "Northwest", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Midway", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 20]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [25, 28]}, {"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [36, 40]}, {"entity": "Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [61, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "A month ago , Hertz , of Park Ridge , N.J. , said that it would drop its marketing agreements at year end with Delta , America West and Texas Air Corp. 's Continental Airlines and Eastern Airlines , and that pacts with American Airlines , UAL Inc 's United Airlines and USAir also would be ended ... sometime after Dec. 31 .", "entity": [{"entity": "A month ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Hertz", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 19]}, {"entity": "Park Ridge", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 35]}, {"entity": "N.J.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 42]}, {"entity": "year end", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [97, 105]}, {"entity": "Delta", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 116]}, {"entity": "America West", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [119, 131]}, {"entity": "Texas Air Corp. 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [136, 154]}, {"entity": "Continental Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [155, 175]}, {"entity": "Eastern Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [180, 196]}, {"entity": "American Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [219, 236]}, {"entity": "UAL Inc 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [239, 249]}, {"entity": "United Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [250, 265]}, {"entity": "USAir", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [270, 275]}, {"entity": "Dec. 31", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [315, 322]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the time , Hertz said its annual fees to those airlines amounted to $ 20 million and that the value of redeemed awards topped $ 15 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hertz", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 19]}, {"entity": "annual", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 35]}, {"entity": "$ 20 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [71, 83]}, {"entity": "$ 15 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [129, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Analysts and competitors , however , doubt the numbers were that high .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Budget said its frequent - flier costs are `` substantially below '' Avis 's level .", "entity": [{"entity": "Budget", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Robert D. Cardillo , Avis vice president of marketing , said , `` The proliferation and costs attached to { frequent - flier programs } have significantly diminished their value . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Robert D. Cardillo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This year has been difficult for both Hertz and Avis , said Charles Finnie , car - rental industry analyst at Alex . Brown & Sons .", "entity": [{"entity": "This year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Hertz", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 43]}, {"entity": "Avis", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [48, 52]}, {"entity": "Charles Finnie", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [60, 74]}, {"entity": "Alex . Brown & Sons", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "General Motors Corp. , in a series of moves that angered union officials in the U.S. and Canada , has signaled that as many as five North American assembly plants may not survive the mid-1990s as the corporation struggles to cut its excess vehicle - making capacity .", "entity": [{"entity": "General Motors Corp.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 84]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 95]}, {"entity": "as many as five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [116, 131]}, {"entity": "North American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [132, 146]}, {"entity": "the mid-1990s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [179, 192]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In announcements to workers late last week , GM effectively signed death notices for two full - sized van assembly plants , and cast serious doubt on the futures of three U.S. car factories .", "entity": [{"entity": "last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 42]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 47]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [85, 88]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [165, 170]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [171, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "GM is under intense pressure to close factories that became unprofitable as the giant auto maker 's U.S. market share skidded during the past decade .", "entity": [{"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [100, 104]}, {"entity": "the past decade", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [133, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company , currently using about 80 % of its North American vehicle capacity , has vowed it will run at 100 % of capacity by 1992 .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [30, 40]}, {"entity": "North American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 62]}, {"entity": "100 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [107, 112]}, {"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [128, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "One reason is mounting competition from new Japanese car plants in the U.S. that are pouring out more than one million vehicles a year at costs lower than GM can match .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 52]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 75]}, {"entity": "more than one million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [97, 118]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [155, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another is that United Auto Workers union officials have signaled they want tighter no - layoff provisions in the new Big Three national contract that will be negotiated next year .", "entity": [{"entity": "United Auto Workers", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 35]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [170, 179]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Against that backdrop , UAW Vice President Stephen P. Yokich , who recently became head of the union 's GM department , issued a statement Friday blasting GM 's `` flagrant insensitivity '' toward union members .", "entity": [{"entity": "UAW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 27]}, {"entity": "Stephen P. Yokich", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 60]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [104, 106]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [139, 145]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [155, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The auto maker 's decision to let word of the latest shutdowns and product reassignments trickle out in separate communiques to the affected plants showed `` disarray '' and an `` inability or unwillingness to provide consistent information , '' Mr. Yokich said .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yokich", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [250, 256]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "GM officials told workers late last week of the following moves : Production of full - sized vans will be consolidated into a single plant in Flint , Mich .", "entity": [{"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 40]}, {"entity": "Flint", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [142, 147]}, {"entity": "Mich", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That means two plants -- one in Scarborough , Ontario , and the other in Lordstown , Ohio -- probably will be shut down after the end of 1991 .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [11, 14]}, {"entity": "Scarborough", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 43]}, {"entity": "Ontario", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 53]}, {"entity": "Lordstown", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 82]}, {"entity": "Ohio", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 89]}, {"entity": "the end of 1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [126, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The shutdowns will idle about 3,000 Canadian assembly workers and about 2,500 workers in Ohio .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 3,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 35]}, {"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [36, 44]}, {"entity": "about 2,500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [66, 77]}, {"entity": "Ohio", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Robert White , Canadian Auto Workers union president , used the impending Scarborough shutdown to criticize the U.S. - Canada free trade agreement and its champion , Prime Minister Brian Mulroney .", "entity": [{"entity": "Robert White", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "Canadian Auto Workers", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 36]}, {"entity": "Scarborough", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 85]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 116]}, {"entity": "Brian Mulroney", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [181, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But Canadian auto workers may benefit from a separate GM move that affects three U.S. car plants and one in Quebec .", "entity": [{"entity": "Canadian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [54, 56]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [75, 80]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 85]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 104]}, {"entity": "Quebec", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Workers at plants in Van Nuys , Calif. , Oklahoma City and Pontiac , Mich. , were told their facilities are no longer being considered to build the next generation of the Pontiac Firebird and Chevrolet Camaro muscle cars .", "entity": [{"entity": "Van Nuys", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "Calif.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 38]}, {"entity": "Oklahoma City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 54]}, {"entity": "Pontiac", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 66]}, {"entity": "Mich.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 74]}, {"entity": "Pontiac", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 178]}, {"entity": "Firebird", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [179, 187]}, {"entity": "Chevrolet", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [192, 201]}, {"entity": "Camaro", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [202, 208]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "GM is studying whether it can build the new Camaro - Firebird profitably at a plant in St. Therese , Quebec , company and union officials said .", "entity": [{"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "Camaro - Firebird", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [44, 61]}, {"entity": "St. Therese", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [87, 98]}, {"entity": "Quebec", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That announcement left union officials in Van Nuys and Oklahoma City uncertain about their futures .", "entity": [{"entity": "Van Nuys", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 50]}, {"entity": "Oklahoma City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Van Nuys plant , which employs about 3,000 workers , does n't have a product to build after 1993 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Van Nuys", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "about 3,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [35, 46]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [96, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jerry Shrieves , UAW local president , said the facility was asked to draw up plans to continue working as a `` flex plant , '' which could build several different types of products on short notice to satisfy demand .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jerry Shrieves", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "UAW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the Oklahoma City plant , which employs about 6,000 workers building the eight - year - old A - body mid-sized cars , Steve Featherston , UAW local vice president , said the plant has no new product lined up , and `` none of us knows '' when the A - body cars will die .", "entity": [{"entity": "Oklahoma City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 20]}, {"entity": "about 6,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [43, 54]}, {"entity": "eight - year - old", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [76, 94]}, {"entity": "Steve Featherston", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [121, 138]}, {"entity": "UAW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [141, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said he believes GM has plans to keep building A - body cars into the mid-1990s .", "entity": [{"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 22]}, {"entity": "the mid-1990s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At Pontiac , however , the Camaro - Firebird decision appears to erase UAW hopes that GM would reopen the shuttered assembly plant that last built the plastic - bodied , two - seater Pontiac Fiero model .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pontiac", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [3, 10]}, {"entity": "Camaro - Firebird", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [27, 44]}, {"entity": "UAW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 74]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [86, 88]}, {"entity": "Pontiac Fiero", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [183, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Fiero plant was viewed as a model of union - management cooperation at GM before slow sales of the Fiero forced the company to close the factory last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fiero", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "GM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [75, 77]}, {"entity": "Fiero", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [103, 108]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [149, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Union officials have taken a beating politically as a result .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dissident UAW members have used the Fiero plant as a symbol of labor - management cooperation 's failure .", "entity": [{"entity": "UAW", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 13]}, {"entity": "Fiero", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [36, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A group of Arby 's franchisees said they formed an association to oppose Miami Beach financier Victor Posner 's control of the restaurant chain .", "entity": [{"entity": "Arby 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 18]}, {"entity": "Miami Beach", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 84]}, {"entity": "Victor Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [95, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The decision is the latest move in an escalating battle between the franchisees and Mr. Posner that began in August .", "entity": [{"entity": "Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [88, 94]}, {"entity": "August", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [109, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the time , a group called R.B. Partners Ltd. , consisting of eight of Arby 's largest franchisees , offered more than $ 200 million to buy Arby 's Inc. , which is part of DWG Corp .", "entity": [{"entity": "R.B. Partners Ltd.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [29, 47]}, {"entity": "eight", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [64, 69]}, {"entity": "Arby 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [73, 80]}, {"entity": "more than $ 200 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [111, 134]}, {"entity": "Arby 's Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [142, 154]}, {"entity": "DWG Corp", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [174, 182]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "DWG is a holding company controlled by Mr. Posner .", "entity": [{"entity": "DWG", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One week later , Leonard H. Roberts , president and chief executive officer of Arby 's , was fired in a dispute with Mr. Posner .", "entity": [{"entity": "One week later", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Leonard H. Roberts", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 35]}, {"entity": "Arby 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [79, 86]}, {"entity": "Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [121, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Friday , 42 franchisees announced the formation of an association -- called A.P. Association Inc. -- to `` preserve the integrity of the Arby 's system . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "42", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [9, 11]}, {"entity": "A.P. Association Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 97]}, {"entity": "Arby", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [137, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The franchisees , owners or operators of 1,000 of the 1,900 franchised Arby 's in the U.S. , said : `` We have concluded that continued control of Arby 's by Victor Posner is totally unacceptable to us , because it is extremely likely to cause irreparable damage to the Arby 's system .", "entity": [{"entity": "1,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [41, 46]}, {"entity": "1,900", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [54, 59]}, {"entity": "Arby", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 75]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [86, 90]}, {"entity": "Arby 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [147, 154]}, {"entity": "Victor Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [158, 171]}, {"entity": "Arby", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [270, 274]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We support all efforts to remove Victor Posner from control of Arby 's Inc. and the Arby 's system . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Victor Posner", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 46]}, {"entity": "Arby 's Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 75]}, {"entity": "Arby", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [84, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The group said it would consider , among other things , withholding royalty payments and initiating a class - action lawsuit seeking court approval for the withholdings .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Florida , Renee Mottram , a senior vice president at DWG , responded : `` We do n't think any individual or group should disrupt a winning system or illegally interfere with existing contractual relationships for their own self - serving motives .", "entity": [{"entity": "Florida", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 10]}, {"entity": "Renee Mottram", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 26]}, {"entity": "DWG", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Weatherford International Inc. said it canceled plans for a preferred - stock swap but may resume payment of dividends on the stock , and added that it expects to publicly offer about 10 million common shares .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weatherford International Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 30]}, {"entity": "about 10 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [178, 194]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company said it planned to offer an undetermined number of common shares in exchange for the 585,000 shares of its preferred stock outstanding .", "entity": [{"entity": "585,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [97, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The exchange ratio was never established .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Weatherford said market conditions led to the cancellation of the planned exchange .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weatherford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The energy - services concern said , however , that in January 1990 , it may resume payments of dividends on the preferred stock .", "entity": [{"entity": "January 1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Weatherford suspended its preferred - dividend payment in October 1985 and said it has n't any plans to catch up on dividends in arrears about $ 6 million , but will do so some time in the future .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weatherford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "October 1985", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 70]}, {"entity": "about $ 6 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [137, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Additionally , the company said it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the proposed offering of 10 million shares of common stock , expected to be offered in November .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Securities and Exchange Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 84]}, {"entity": "10 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [114, 124]}, {"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [176, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company said Salomon Brothers Inc. and Howard , Weil , Labouisse , Friedrichs Inc. , underwriters for the offering , were granted an option to buy as much as an additional 1.5 million shares to cover over - allotments .", "entity": [{"entity": "Salomon Brothers Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 38]}, {"entity": "Howard , Weil , Labouisse , Friedrichs Inc.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 86]}, {"entity": "as much as an additional 1.5 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [151, 187]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Proceeds will be used to eliminate and restructure bank debt .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Weatherford currently has approximately 11.1 million common shares outstanding .", "entity": [{"entity": "Weatherford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "approximately 11.1 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Regarding the Oct. 3 letter to the editor from Rep. Tom Lantos , chairman of the House Subcommittee on Employment and Housing , alleging :", "entity": [{"entity": "Oct. 3", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 20]}, {"entity": "Tom Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [52, 62]}, {"entity": "the House Subcommittee on Employment and Housing", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [77, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "1 . That your Sept. 28 editorial `` Kangaroo Committees '' was factually inaccurate and deliberately misleading .", "entity": [{"entity": "1", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 1]}, {"entity": "Sept. 28", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [14, 22]}, {"entity": "Kangaroo Committees", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [36, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I thought your editorial was factually accurate and deliberately elucidative .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "2 . That Mr. Lantos supported the rights of the witnesses to take the Fifth Amendment .", "entity": [{"entity": "2", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 1]}, {"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 19]}, {"entity": "the Fifth Amendment", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [66, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yes , he did .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As I watched him on C - Span , I heard him speak those lovely words about the Bill of Rights , which he quotes from the transcript of the hearings .", "entity": [{"entity": "C - Span", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 28]}, {"entity": "the Bill of Rights", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [74, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He did repeat those nice platitudes several times as an indication of his support for the Constitution .", "entity": [{"entity": "Constitution", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [90, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He used about 56 words defending the witnesses ' constitutional rights .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 56", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [8, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Unfortunately , by my rough guess , he used better than 5,000 words heaping scorn on the witnesses for exercising the Fifth .", "entity": [{"entity": "5,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "Fifth", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [118, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He sandwiched his praise of constitutional meat between large loaves of bilious commentary .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As your editorial rightly pointed out , Samuel Pierce , former HUD secretary , and Lance Wilson , Mr. Pierce 's former aide , `` are currently being held up to scorn for taking the Fifth Amendment .", "entity": [{"entity": "Samuel Pierce", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [40, 53]}, {"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 66]}, {"entity": "Lance Wilson", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [83, 95]}, {"entity": "Pierce", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [102, 108]}, {"entity": "the Fifth Amendment", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [177, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "'' That certainly is not the supposed `` distorted reading '' indicated by Mr. Lantos .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [79, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "3 . That his `` committee does not deal with any possible criminal activity at HUD .", "entity": [{"entity": "3", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 1]}, {"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [79, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "My colleagues and I fully realize we are not a court ... etc . ''", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Absolute rubbish .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By any `` reasonable man '' criterion , Mr. Lantos and his colleagues have a whole bunch of people tried and convicted .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [44, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apparently , their verdict is in .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Right now they 're pursuing evidence .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "That 's not a bad way to proceed , just somewhat different from standard American practice .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [73, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How was that practice referred to when I was in school ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ah , yes , something called a Star Chamber .", "entity": [{"entity": "a Star Chamber", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , Mr. Lantos doth protest that his subcommittee simply seeks information for legislative change .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No doubt that 's partially true .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everything that Mr. Lantos says in his letter is partially true .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He 's right about his subcommittee 's responsibilities when it comes to obtaining information from prior HUD officials .", "entity": [{"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [105, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But if his explanation of motivation is true , why is his investigation so oriented as to identify criminal activity ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why not simply questions designed to identify sources and causes of waste and inefficiency ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Such as , what happened when Congress wanted to know about $ 400 toilet seats or whatever they supposedly cost ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [29, 37]}, {"entity": "400", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [61, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No , Mr. Lantos 's complaints simply wo n't wash .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "4 . That the Journal defends `` the sleaze , fraud , waste , embezzlement , influence - peddling and abuse of the public that took place while Mr. Pierce was secretary of HUD , '' etc. and so forth .", "entity": [{"entity": "4", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 1]}, {"entity": "Journal", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 20]}, {"entity": "Pierce", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [147, 153]}, {"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No , to my mind , the Journal did not `` defend sleaze , fraud , waste , embezzlement , influence - peddling and abuse of the public trust ... ''", "entity": [{"entity": "Journal", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it defended appropriate constitutional safeguards and practical common sense .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The problem , which the Journal so rightly pointed out in a number of articles , is not the likes of Mr. Lantos , who after all is really a bit player on the stage , but the attempt by Congress to enhance itself into a quasi-parliamentary / judicial body .", "entity": [{"entity": "Journal", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 31]}, {"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [105, 111]}, {"entity": "Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [185, 193]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Of course , we 've also got a judiciary that seeks the same objective . )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The system is the problem , not an individual member .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Individuals can always have their hands slapped .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's when such slapping does n't occur that we 've got trouble .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I do not by any means defend HUD management .", "entity": [{"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [29, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I think the kind of congressional investigation that has been pursued is a far greater danger to American notions of liberty and freedom than any incompetency ( and , yes , maybe criminality ) within HUD could possibly generate .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [101, 109]}, {"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [204, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The last time I saw a similar congressional hearing was when `` Tail Gunner Joe '' McCarthy did his work .", "entity": [{"entity": "`` Tail Gunner Joe '' McCarthy", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Raymond Weber", "entity": [{"entity": "Raymond Weber", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Parsippany , N.J .", "entity": [{"entity": "Parsippany", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "N.J .", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I disagree with the statement by Mr. Lantos that one should not draw an adverse inference against former HUD officials who assert their Fifth Amendment privilege against self - incrimination in congressional hearings .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lantos", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [37, 43]}, {"entity": "HUD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [105, 108]}, {"entity": "Fifth Amendment", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [136, 151]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Fifth Amendment states in relevant part that no person `` shall be compelled , in any criminal case , to be a witness against himself . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "The Fifth Amendment", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This privilege against self - incrimination precludes the drawing of an adverse inference against a criminal defendant who chooses not to testify .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The privilege , however , has been limited in accordance with its plain language to protect the defendant in criminal matters only .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Thus , when Mr. Pierce asserted the Fifth in a noncriminal proceeding , particularly after presumably receiving extensive advice from legal counsel , one must conclude that he held a good - faith , justifiable belief that his testimony could be used against him in a subsequent criminal prosecution .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pierce", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 22]}, {"entity": "Fifth", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [36, 41]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [150, 153]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The offering , Series 102 , backed by Freddie Mac 8 1/2 % securities with a weighted average remaining term to maturity of 28.4 years , was priced before the market 's afternoon surge .", "entity": [{"entity": "102", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [22, 25]}, {"entity": "Freddie Mac", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 49]}, {"entity": "8 1/2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [50, 57]}, {"entity": "28.4 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [123, 133]}, {"entity": "afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [168, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "There were no major Eurobond or foreign bond offerings in Europe Friday .", "entity": [{"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [58, 64]}, {"entity": "Friday", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Bush administration , trying to blunt growing demands from Western Europe for a relaxation of controls on exports to the Soviet bloc , is questioning whether Italy 's Ing . C. Olivetti & Co. supplied militarily valuable technology to the Soviets .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 8]}, {"entity": "Western Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [63, 77]}, {"entity": "Soviet", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [125, 131]}, {"entity": "bloc", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [132, 136]}, {"entity": "Italy", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [162, 167]}, {"entity": "Ing . C. Olivetti & Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 194]}, {"entity": "Soviets", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [242, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Most of the Western European members of Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls , the unofficial forum through which the U.S. and its allies align their export - control policies , are expected to argue for more liberal export rules at a meeting to be held in Paris Oct. 25 and 26 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Western European", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [12, 28]}, {"entity": "Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 94]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 140]}, {"entity": "Paris", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [275, 280]}, {"entity": "Oct. 25", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [281, 288]}, {"entity": "26", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [293, 295]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They plan to press specifically for a relaxation of rules governing exports of machine tools , computers and other high - technology products .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "To make its point , it is challenging the Italian government to explain reports that Olivetti may have supplied the Soviet Union with sophisticated computer - driven devices that could be used to build parts for combat aircraft .", "entity": [{"entity": "Italian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [42, 49]}, {"entity": "Olivetti", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 93]}, {"entity": "the Soviet Union", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The London Sunday Times , which first reported the U.S. concerns , cited a U.S. intelligence report as the source of the allegations that Olivetti exported $ 25 million in `` embargoed , state - of - the - art , flexible manufacturing systems to the Soviet aviation industry . ''", "entity": [{"entity": "The London Sunday Times", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 23]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 55]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 79]}, {"entity": "Olivetti", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [138, 146]}, {"entity": "$ 25 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [156, 168]}, {"entity": "Soviet", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [250, 256]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "A State Department spokesman acknowledged that the U.S. is discussing the allegations with the Italian government and Cocom , but declined to confirm any details .", "entity": [{"entity": "State Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [2, 18]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 55]}, {"entity": "Italian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [95, 102]}, {"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [118, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Italian President Francesco Cossiga promised a quick investigation into whether Olivetti broke Cocom rules .", "entity": [{"entity": "Italian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Francesco Cossiga", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 35]}, {"entity": "Olivetti", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 88]}, {"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [95, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President Bush called his attention to the matter during the Italian leader 's visit here last week .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Italian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [61, 68]}, {"entity": "last week", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [90, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Olivetti has denied that it violated Cocom rules , asserting that the reported shipments were properly licensed by the Italian authorities .", "entity": [{"entity": "Olivetti", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 42]}, {"entity": "Italian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [119, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although the legality of these sales is still an open question , the disclosure could n't be better timed to support the position of export - control hawks in the Pentagon and the intelligence community .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pentagon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [163, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` It seems to me that a story like this breaks just before every important Cocom meeting , '' said a Washington lobbyist for a number of U.S. computer companies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 81]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [102, 112]}, {"entity": "U.S.", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [138, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Last summer , Mr. Bush moved the administration in the direction of gradual liberalization when he told a North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting that he would allow some exceptions to the Cocom embargo of strategic goods .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last summer", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Bush", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 22]}, {"entity": "North Atlantic Treaty Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [106, 140]}, {"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [192, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But more recently , the Pentagon and the Commerce Department openly feuded over the extent to which Cocom should liberalize exports of personal computers to the bloc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pentagon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [24, 32]}, {"entity": "the Commerce Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 60]}, {"entity": "Cocom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 105]}, {"entity": "bloc", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [161, 165]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , these agencies generally agree that the West should be cautious about any further liberalization .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "`` There 's no evidence that the Soviet program to ( illegally ) acquire Western technology has diminished , '' said a State Department spokesman .", "entity": [{"entity": "Soviet", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [33, 39]}, {"entity": "State Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [119, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the script \" Mongolian handicapped athletes prepare for the Far South Sports Meet \" broadcast today , the \" Sports Association Chairman Lahagewasu \" at the end of paragraph three should be changed to \" Sports Association Chairman Lahagewasulen \" .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mongolian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [16, 25]}, {"entity": "the Far South Sports Meet", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [59, 84]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "Sports Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [111, 129]}, {"entity": "Sports Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [205, 223]}, {"entity": "Lahagewasulen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [233, 246]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , August 31st .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "August 31st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [21, 32]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The scale became larger and larger and the level became higher and higher .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The games have received more broad attention and support of the public , and have attracted more disabled people to take part in the events .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since 1984 the Chinese Disabled Sports Association has become a member of 8 international disabled sports organizations successively , such as the International Para Olympic Committee , etc. and has established relations with disabled sports organizations in various countries and areas and taken part in international events such as the Special Olympic Games , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Since 1984", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "the Chinese Disabled Sports Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 50]}, {"entity": "8", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [74, 75]}, {"entity": "the International Para Olympic Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [143, 183]}, {"entity": "the Special Olympic Games", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [334, 359]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In competitions and contacts , disabled Chinese people have revealed extraordinary physical abilities , achieved excellent results , enhanced friendship with disabled people from various countries and areas and contributed to the development of physical activities for disabled people around the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [40, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The Guaranteed Law for Disabled Persons in the People 's Republic of China \" , which was drafted and implemented in 1991 , stipulates to organize and support disabled people to develop mass sports activities , to hold special games and to participate in important international competitions and communication .", "entity": [{"entity": "\" The Guaranteed Law for Disabled Persons in the People 's Republic of China \"", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [0, 78]}, {"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [118, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The guarantee of the law has and will continue to boost the vigorous development of the sports cause for China 's disabled .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [105, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Holding the 6th Asia - Pacific Special Olympic Games in Beijing will motivate all of society to better understand and support disabled sports .", "entity": [{"entity": "6th", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Asia - Pacific Special Olympic Games", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [16, 52]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will make the public more conscious of helping disabled people and encourage more disabled people to take part in physical activities .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will , therefore , greatly assist in the development of the sports cause for China 's disabled .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Truly , the foundation of disabled sports in China is not very strong , popularization is not yet widespread , and compared with some developed countries , still has a large gap .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the \" impact \" of the Far South Games foreshadows a bright future for this civilized and progressive cause .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Far South Games", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [28, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( End )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Changchun , December 16th , by reporter Changqing Zhou", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Changchun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 30]}, {"entity": "December 16th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 46]}, {"entity": "Changqing Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This year , the United Nations Development and Planning Office held a Tumen River Area International Tourism Conference in Jilin , China , actively supporting projects such as China 's Changbai Mountain 's ice and snow winter tourism , etc. , while at the same time , still providing funds for training international economic and trade talent here .", "entity": [{"entity": "This year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "the United Nations Development and Planning Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 62]}, {"entity": "a Tumen River Area International Tourism Conference", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [68, 119]}, {"entity": "Jilin , China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [123, 136]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [176, 181]}, {"entity": "Changbai Mountain", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [185, 202]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The United Nations Industrial Development Organization recently implemented a thorough investigation into the current state of industrial projects in the Tumen River region , and made some suggestions about future industrial development projects in this area .", "entity": [{"entity": "The United Nations Industrial Development Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 54]}, {"entity": "the Tumen River region", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [150, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They also invited some experts to implement an appraisal of the industrial projects put forward by related countries , and then after the appraisal , entered these projects into the Industrial Development Organization 's network to attract international business .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Industrial Development Organization 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [178, 220]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "International societies represented by the United Nations Development and Planning Office and the Industrial Development Organization have always given active support and effective promotion to the Tumen River region 's international cooperation and development program .", "entity": [{"entity": "the United Nations Development and Planning Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 89]}, {"entity": "the Industrial Development Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [94, 133]}, {"entity": "the Tumen River region 's", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [194, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Tumen River development program , aiming at building up the Tumen Delta , where the three countries of China , Russia and North Korea meet , into a cosmopolitan hub for the circulation of material and a center for economy and trade , was initially proposed by Chinese experts such as Shishen Ding , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tumen River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "the Tumen Delta", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [60, 75]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [88, 93]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 112]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [115, 121]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [126, 137]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [264, 271]}, {"entity": "Shishen Ding", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [288, 300]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1991 , the United Nations Development and Planning decided to support it and announced it to the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "the United Nations Development and Planning", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since the end of 1995 , when the program changed from the appraisal phase into the implementation phase , the three countries : China , Russia and North Korea , have all implemented some infrastructure construction and activities for attracting business and investment , and have initially started bilateral and multilateral cooperation .", "entity": [{"entity": "the end of 1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [6, 21]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [110, 115]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [128, 133]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 142]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [147, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Concerned countries and the international societies have also given support to this program .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For several years , the United Nations Development and Planning Office has , as always , supported the Tumen River development , and actively helped the three countries : China , Russia and North Korea , to attract world business and to help implement feasibility studies for development projects .", "entity": [{"entity": "several years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [4, 17]}, {"entity": "the United Nations Development and Planning Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 70]}, {"entity": "Tumen River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [103, 114]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [171, 176]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [179, 185]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [190, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1995 and 1996 , with the help of the United Nations Development and Planning Office and the Industrial Development Organization , China and North Korea successively held the \" Tumen River region investment and trade negotiation conference \" , and both made relatively good achievements .", "entity": [{"entity": "1995 and 1996", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 16]}, {"entity": "the United Nations Development and Planning Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [36, 86]}, {"entity": "the Industrial Development Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 130]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [133, 138]}, {"entity": "North Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 154]}, {"entity": "Tumen River region", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [179, 197]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the near future , the Russian Tumen River Region Negotiation Conference will also be held in Vladivostok .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Russian Tumen River Region Negotiation Conference", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [21, 74]}, {"entity": "Vladivostok", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [96, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , the Industrial Development Organization has also entrusted China 's Northeast Teacher 's University , which has considerably researched the regional economy , to implement the preliminary investigation and research for analysis of the circulation of materials via the sea , land and air transportation system of the Northeast Asia region in the next twenty years .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Industrial Development Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 50]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [70, 75]}, {"entity": "Northeast Teacher 's University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [79, 110]}, {"entity": "the Northeast Asia region", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [323, 348]}, {"entity": "the next twenty years", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [352, 373]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Tumen River Development Program has also received strong support from governments and enterprises of many countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Tumen River Development Program", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , the Finnish government has allocated 1 million US dollars as a subsidy for the preliminary work of the Tumen River Development ; Sweden has put forth funding to do feasibility studies on the linking of the Chinese and Mongolian railways and the construction of a new Northeast Asian continental bridge .", "entity": [{"entity": "Finnish", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [19, 26]}, {"entity": "1 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [52, 72]}, {"entity": "the Tumen River Development", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 141]}, {"entity": "Sweden", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [144, 150]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [221, 228]}, {"entity": "Mongolian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [233, 242]}, {"entity": "Northeast Asian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [282, 297]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , the Japanese Import and Export Bank has signed a contract with Russia to participate in the construction of Russia 's Zalubinau port expansion project .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Japanese Import and Export Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 46]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 80]}, {"entity": "Russia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 125]}, {"entity": "Zalubinau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [129, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the invitation of concerned Chinese departments , Japan has also made investigations into the comprehensive development of the regions along the railway from China 's Changchun to Huichun .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 38]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 58]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [161, 166]}, {"entity": "Changchun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [170, 179]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [183, 190]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shuoren Jin , mayor of Huichun in Jilin Province , said : \" International societies ' support and participation play an active and key role in Huichun 's development and opening up .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shuoren Jin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 30]}, {"entity": "Jilin Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 48]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 150]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The last few years has been the period when Huichun 's overall strength has been enhanced most remarkably , the appearance of urban and rural areas has changed most noticeably and the most real benefits have been gained by people . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "The last few years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to investigations , South Korean enterprise circles have invested nearly 100 million US dollars in Huichun , and foreign - invested enterprises have become an important pillar of the local economy .", "entity": [{"entity": "South Korean", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 42]}, {"entity": "100 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [83, 105]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to promote the development of the Tumen River region , South Korea donated one million US dollars to establish the Tumen River development fund .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Tumen River region", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [39, 61]}, {"entity": "South Korea", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 75]}, {"entity": "one million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [84, 106]}, {"entity": "Tumen River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [124, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , 100,000 US dollars has been taken from the fund to make an evaluation of the environment in China 's Huichun 's frontier cooperative area in the expectation of providing consultation on the environmental aspect for the entry of large quantities of foreign capital into this area .", "entity": [{"entity": "100,000 US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [6, 24]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [98, 103]}, {"entity": "Huichun", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 114]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Zhezhu Quan , vice governor of Jilin Province who is in charge of the work of economy and trade , said : \" International societies are welcome to join us for joint promotion of the Tumen River development undertaking , and the development of the regional economy so as to benefit the people of Northeast Asia . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhezhu Quan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Jilin Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 45]}, {"entity": "Tumen River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [181, 192]}, {"entity": "Northeast Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [294, 308]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Shanghai , Dec. 20th , by reporter Yu Wu", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "Dec. 20th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 41]}, {"entity": "Yu Wu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [56, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From January to November of this year , the Shanghai 's total foreign trade export volume for the year reached 22.02 billion US dollars , increasing by 73 % compared with 1993 .", "entity": [{"entity": "January to November of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 37]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 52]}, {"entity": "the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [94, 102]}, {"entity": "22.02 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [111, 135]}, {"entity": "73 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [152, 156]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [171, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This reporter learned from the municipal foreign economy and trade committee that in the past 5 years , through foreign trade system reform and implementing a \" big foreign trade \" strategy , Shanghai 's total import and export volume is steadily increasing at about 14 % per year , and its foreign trade has entered its fastest period of development in history .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past 5 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [85, 101]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [192, 200]}, {"entity": "about 14 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [261, 271]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shanghai estimates that this year 's value of exports could exceed 14.5 billion US dollars , among which finished industrial products account for 93.1 % , having increased 4.1 % over 1993 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 33]}, {"entity": "14.5 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [67, 90]}, {"entity": "93.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [146, 152]}, {"entity": "4.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [172, 177]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [183, 187]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mechanical and electronic products account for 31.5 % of the total export value , up from 17.9 % of 5 years ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "31.5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [47, 53]}, {"entity": "17.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [90, 96]}, {"entity": "5 years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [100, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , Shanghai has established trade contacts with 205 countries and regions , and Southeast Asia , Oceania , Latin America , the Middle East and South Africa have become new markets opened up by Shanghai .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 20]}, {"entity": "205", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 60]}, {"entity": "Southeast Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [89, 103]}, {"entity": "Oceania", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [106, 113]}, {"entity": "Latin America", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [116, 129]}, {"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [132, 147]}, {"entity": "South Africa", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [152, 164]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [202, 210]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to Xiaoming Zhu , director of the Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee , Shanghai has sped up implementing a business strategy of diversity in foreign trade enterprises to meet the requirements of national policy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xiaoming Zhu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [13, 25]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [40, 89]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This gradually changes the entire city 's 725 foreign trade enterprises of various kinds into market economic principles that autonomously manage business and are responsible for their own profits and losses .", "entity": [{"entity": "725", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By such economic means as merging , holding stocks , sharing stocks , etc. , foreign trade group companies such as Oriental International , Lansheng , and those in foreign economy , light industry , machinery and livestock production , etc. have been successively organized , raising the scale of operations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Oriental International", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [115, 137]}, {"entity": "Lansheng", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [140, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , Shanghai has formed 6 export forces : foreign trade , industrial trade , self - management enterprises , enterprises subordinate to central government departments and enterprises in Shanghai invested by other provinces and cities , and foreign investment enterprises .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [6, 14]}, {"entity": "6", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 27]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [188, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Besides , Shanghai maintains the trinity of harmonious development : the goods trade , technology trade and services trade , while implementing the \" Dragon 's head program \" , and optimizing its export goods structure .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 18]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It takes full advantage of the policy for the new Pudong region to breed new growth of foreign trade export .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pudong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to estimates , Shanghai 's technology export transaction value could reach 650 million US dollars this year , which is 3.53 times that of 1993 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 33]}, {"entity": "650 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [85, 107]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [108, 117]}, {"entity": "3.53", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [129, 133]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [148, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The technology trade and the service trade account for about 14 % of total exports .", "entity": [{"entity": "about 14 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [55, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "80 types of \" Dragon 's head merchandise \" such as clothing , textile products , vessels , steel , electronic computers , household electrical appliances , containers , etc. have developed quickly and account for more than half of the entire city 's export volume .", "entity": [{"entity": "80", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From January to November , the new Pudong region 's foreign trade export volume was 2.8 billion US dollars , accounting for 1/5 of the entire city 's export volume .", "entity": [{"entity": "January to November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 24]}, {"entity": "Pudong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 41]}, {"entity": "2.8 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [84, 106]}, {"entity": "1/5", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [124, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is reported that in the past 5 years , Shanghai , through such methods as actively purchasing export goods from other provinces and cities and by holding activities such as the East China Export Goods Trade Fair , etc. , has strengthened its influence as a port city on the entire country .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past 5 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [23, 39]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 50]}, {"entity": "the East China Export Goods Trade Fair", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [176, 214]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the same time , it develops multinational operations and vigorously opens up diversified markets .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to the latest statistics , Shanghai has founded 218 trade - oriented companies and organizations abroad , organized 6 regional overseas group companies , and it has approved overseas non-trade enterprises reaching 260 with a total investment of 200 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 45]}, {"entity": "218", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [58, 61]}, {"entity": "6", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [126, 127]}, {"entity": "260", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [224, 227]}, {"entity": "200 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [255, 277]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The business of Shanghai in foreign engineering contracts is also developing quickly .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This year , 586 new foreign engineering contracting and labor contracts have been signed with contracted funds of 265 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "This year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "586", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "265 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [114, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Tianjin , January 10 , by wire ( reporter Xuejie Man and correspondent Hong Zhang )", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Tianjin", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "January 10", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 41]}, {"entity": "Xuejie Man", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [63, 73]}, {"entity": "Hong Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [92, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This reporter learned from the Tianjin Port Bonded Area that in 1997 the bonded area comprehensively surpassed quotas on various economic indicators with an average growth rate reaching more than 70 % , ranking the first among China 's bonded areas .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Tianjin Port Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 55]}, {"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [64, 68]}, {"entity": "more than 70 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [186, 200]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [215, 220]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [227, 232]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , last year , the Tianjin Port Bonded Area completed a total amount of 850 million US dollars in investment agreements , increasing by 72 % over the same period of the previous year , with total foreign investment agreements of 700 million US dollars , increasing by 75 % over the same period of the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [26, 35]}, {"entity": "the Tianjin Port Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 66]}, {"entity": "850 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [95, 117]}, {"entity": "72 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [159, 163]}, {"entity": "the same period of the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [169, 205]}, {"entity": "700 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [252, 274]}, {"entity": "75 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [291, 295]}, {"entity": "the same period of the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [301, 337]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It achieved a total volume of 4 billion US dollars of goods going into and out of the area , increasing by 83 % over the same period of the previous year , with a total amount of 1 billion US dollars from imports and exports .", "entity": [{"entity": "4 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [30, 50]}, {"entity": "83 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [107, 111]}, {"entity": "the same period of the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [117, 153]}, {"entity": "1 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [179, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All these were the highest levels in history .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since being put into operation five years ago , the Tianjin Port Bonded Area has completed the construction of China 's first goods distribution center , functions like a customs port , opened up the special use the railway line from the Tianjin Port Bonded Area passing Xi'an and Lanzhou to arrive at Xinjiang 's Allah Mountain pass customs port , established a number of large - scale materials circulation distribution and supply centers integrating storage , transportation and sales , opened multiple railway and international container joint - operations with a monthly loading and unloading capacity reaching 6,000 standard containers .", "entity": [{"entity": "five years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 45]}, {"entity": "the Tianjin Port Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 76]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 116]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [120, 125]}, {"entity": "the Tianjin Port Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [234, 262]}, {"entity": "Xi'an", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [271, 276]}, {"entity": "Lanzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [281, 288]}, {"entity": "Xinjiang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [302, 310]}, {"entity": "Allah Mountain", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [314, 328]}, {"entity": "6,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [616, 621]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It has built up an installation capacity of 7,000 sets of program - controlled telephones , had a power supply capacity of 25,000 kilovolts , and a daily water supply capacity of 10,000 tons .", "entity": [{"entity": "7,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [44, 49]}, {"entity": "25,000 kilovolts", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [123, 139]}, {"entity": "10,000 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [179, 190]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , the bonded area has implemented a series of preferential policies towards enterprises entering the area : it has established a system of \" no custom accounting \" and established manuals and management ; for enterprises engaged in international trade and storage processing in the area , the equipment and materials needed are duty free , and domestic trade continuing to sell out of the bonded area is regarded as export , for which customs provides tax refunds , etc .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the daily improvement of the Tianjin Port Bonded Area 's investment environment , foreign businessmen coming to invest are increasing daily .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Tianjin Port Bonded Area 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last year , there were thirteen large projects of over 20 million yuan alone .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "thirteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 31]}, {"entity": "20 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [55, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "CALTEX and Caterpillar from the US , Japan 's Itochu , South Korea 's Daewoo and the New World Consortium from Hong Kong had been successively entering the zone to invest and open business .", "entity": [{"entity": "CALTEX", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Caterpillar", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 22]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 34]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 42]}, {"entity": "Itochu", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 52]}, {"entity": "South Korea 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 69]}, {"entity": "Daewoo", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [70, 76]}, {"entity": "the New World Consortium", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [81, 105]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "While foreign investments were flocking in large numbers , twenty large and medium - sized state - owned enterprises also entered and settled themselves in the zone last year , investing a total of nearly 200 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "twenty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 65]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [165, 174]}, {"entity": "200 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [205, 227]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , in the past five years , Tianjin Bonded Area has attracted a total of over 3000 enterprises from 73 countries and regions all over the world and 25 domestic provinces , cities and municipalities to invest , reaching a total agreed investment value of more than 3 billion US dollars and a total agreed foreign investment reaching more than 2 billion US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past five years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 48]}, {"entity": "Tianjin Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 70]}, {"entity": "3000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 105]}, {"entity": "73", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [123, 125]}, {"entity": "25", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [171, 173]}, {"entity": "more than 3 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [277, 307]}, {"entity": "more than 2 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [355, 385]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Lanzhou , February 15 , by wire ( reporter Zhi Qu )", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Lanzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "February 15", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 42]}, {"entity": "Zhi Qu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , foreign funded enterprises in Gansu Province no longer worry about investment risk .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To ensure that the opening up to the outside world can be implemented smoothly , during the \" eighth five - year plan \" period ( 1991 to 1995 ) , Gansu Province 's foreign affairs insurance industry developed rapidly , and it has already provided an accumulated sum of 61.1 billion yuan in terms of risk safeguard .", "entity": [{"entity": "eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [94, 100]}, {"entity": "five - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [101, 112]}, {"entity": "1991 to 1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [129, 141]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [146, 163]}, {"entity": "61.1 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [269, 286]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Insurance coverages include the four large categories of property , liability , credit and life , with more than sixty primary and secondary risk types .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [32, 36]}, {"entity": "sixty", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [113, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to presentations from concerned departments in Gansu Province , since the \" eighth five - year plan \" , Gansu Province has used foreign investments to vigorously develop .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 71]}, {"entity": "eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [86, 92]}, {"entity": "five - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [93, 104]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the basis of meeting the needs of economic development and overseas investors , the Gansu provincial branch of the People 's Insurance Company of China Group caters to foreign businessmen 's requirements , providing whole - process insurance which extends from the import of equipment to its transportation , and from installation to the formation of fixed assets , thus helping foreign businessmen to set their minds at ease .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gansu", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [87, 92]}, {"entity": "the People 's Insurance Company of China Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [114, 160]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Conventional insurance lines such as transportation insurance , property insurance , automobile insurance , etc. are specially offered to foreign funded enterprises such as the Zhengda Company and the Huaxing Aluminum Firm , etc. and new types of insurance such as employer liability insurance , investment insurance , and profit - loss insurance , etc. are also offered at the appropriate time , satisfying the investment needs of foreign businessmen , bringing the insurance rate of the foreign business invested enterprises to more than 90 percent .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Zhengda Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [173, 192]}, {"entity": "the Huaxing Aluminum Firm", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [197, 222]}, {"entity": "more than 90 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [530, 550]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , during the \" eighth five - year plan \" period , the amount of risk People 's Insurance Co. took up for the import and export trade of Gansu Province reached 771 million yuan , and paid out 13.855 million yuan as indemnity , effectively promoting the development of Gansu Province 's import and export trade .", "entity": [{"entity": "eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [39, 45]}, {"entity": "five - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 57]}, {"entity": "People 's Insurance Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [93, 116]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [160, 174]}, {"entity": "771 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [183, 199]}, {"entity": "13.855 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [215, 234]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [291, 308]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The \" redirection of the Da river to Shaanxi \" project mortgaged by the World Bank is the longest gravity - irrigation water conservancy project in the whole country .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Da river", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [21, 33]}, {"entity": "Shaanxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 44]}, {"entity": "the World Bank", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [68, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "People 's Insurance Co. in Gansu Province provided all kinds of risk insurance to thirteen of the joint venture contractors and had indemnity reaching 693 million yuan .", "entity": [{"entity": "People 's Insurance Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 23]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 41]}, {"entity": "693 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [151, 167]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They also provided 190 million US dollars of installation insurance for a national key project : the Lanhua Chemical Fertilizer Plant reform and expansion project .", "entity": [{"entity": "190 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [19, 41]}, {"entity": "Lanhua Chemical Fertilizer Plant", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [101, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Aiming at the development requirements of the Gansu tourism industry , People 's Insurance Co. actively promotes travel insurance for overseas tourists , and took the lead at home in providing insurance for individual overseas tourists , which made sure that all those who came sightseeing in Gansu Province during the \" eighth five - year plan \" period had insurance .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gansu", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "People 's Insurance Co.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 94]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [293, 307]}, {"entity": "eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [321, 327]}, {"entity": "five - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [328, 339]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gansu Province also actively explored high risk business .", "entity": [{"entity": "Gansu Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "During the \" eighth five - year plan \" period , it participated in the co-insurance of satellite launching , with a shared risk amount reaching 10 million yuan , and , paying 5 million yuan in indemnity , became the northwest 's first company to participate in the aerospace industry .", "entity": [{"entity": "eighth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [13, 19]}, {"entity": "five - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 31]}, {"entity": "10 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [144, 159]}, {"entity": "5 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [175, 189]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [229, 234]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the same time , it actively expanded its insurance business in the overseas market , providing nearly 30 million US dollars in comprehensive insurance for construction engineering to the Zimbabwe Highway project that was bid on by an international company in the province ; providing liability insurance of 13 million US dollars for the overseas department of the Lanzhou Petrochemical Machinery Factory and the Singapore Oil Drilling Platform ; providing related forms of insurance for Gansu Province 's Overseas Economic and Trade Negotiation Association and for laborers exported overseas ; and also providing complementary insurance services for the overseas business of the Gansu Province Thermoelectric Company .", "entity": [{"entity": "nearly 30 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [98, 126]}, {"entity": "Zimbabwe Highway", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [190, 206]}, {"entity": "13 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [310, 331]}, {"entity": "the Lanzhou Petrochemical Machinery Factory", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [363, 406]}, {"entity": "the Singapore Oil Drilling Platform", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [411, 446]}, {"entity": "Gansu Province 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [490, 507]}, {"entity": "Overseas Economic and Trade Negotiation Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [508, 559]}, {"entity": "the Gansu Province Thermoelectric Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [678, 719]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Guiyang , December 22nd , by reporter Fang Fang", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Guiyang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "Fang Fang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guizhou Mao - tai Distillery , which is well - known in China and abroad , plans to implement a technology renovation project with an investment surpassing 400 million RMB to further increase the output of Mao - tai in the next three years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guizhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Mao - tai Distillery", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [8, 28]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [206, 215]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to solve the enormous need for capital , the company is now striving to issue stock and to attempt more financing channels .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The information was revealed a few days ago by Keliang Ji , the board chairman of the Guizhou Mao - tai Distillery ( Group ) Company of China .", "entity": [{"entity": "Keliang Ji", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 57]}, {"entity": "the Guizhou Mao - tai Distillery ( Group ) Company of China", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Keliang Ji said this expansion project would increase the annual output capacity of Mao - tai by 2,000 tons , reaching an output of 6,000 tons per year by 2000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Keliang Ji", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [84, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mao - tai , which is praised as China 's \" national alcoholic drink \" , has a very long history , and is called one of the world 's three famous distilled spirits , the other two being French Cognac and the UK 's Scotch whiskey .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 37]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [185, 191]}, {"entity": "UK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [207, 209]}, {"entity": "Scotch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [213, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because the art of manufacturing Mao - tai is complicated and its production cycle is long , the output of Mao - tai is extremely limited .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 42]}, {"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [107, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The annual output only reached 1,200 tons in 1987 .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In recent years , under the support of the national Ministry of Finance and the Light Industry Headquarters , the Mao - tai Distillery invested 530 million yuan RMB to successively implement a two - phase expansion and technology renovation .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ministry of Finance", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 71]}, {"entity": "the Light Industry Headquarters", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 107]}, {"entity": "the Mao - tai Distillery", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 134]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , it has an annual production capacity of 4,000 tons .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1997 , this plant made over 4,400 tons of Mao - tai ; with sales income exceeding 500 million yuan RMB , and profit and taxes reaching 370 million RMB , both being the best levels in history .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mao - tai , which is made in the Chishui river valley area in the northern part of Guizhou Province in southwest China , is known for its extremely special fermentation technique .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Chishui river valley", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [33, 53]}, {"entity": "Guizhou Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [83, 99]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [113, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The water used comes from the Chishui river that flows over cinnabar quality soil and selectively uses such locally produced raw materials as sorghum , high quality wheat , etc. and is fermented during the period from the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to the Double Ninth Festival .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Chishui river", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [26, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After a total of 10 months fermentation , which requires adding material twice , distilling 7 times , fermenting 8 times , and braising and boiling 9 times , the spirit is then put into specially made earthen jars , sealed and stored for over three years .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Finally , it is finished by veteran brewers carefully mixing additives .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What makes Mao - tai even more famous is that first generation leaders of new China had used it to entertain distinguished guests such as former president Nixon of the US , Tanaka Kakuei , former prime minister of Japan , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mao - tai", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 20]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 83]}, {"entity": "Nixon", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [155, 160]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [168, 170]}, {"entity": "Tanaka Kakuei", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [173, 186]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [214, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Shenyang , March 19 , by wire", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Shenyang", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "March 19", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Liaoning , a large industrial province of China , in the beginning of this year , comprehensively increased import and export trade .", "entity": [{"entity": "Liaoning", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [42, 47]}, {"entity": "the beginning of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the first two months of this year , the total value of import and export trade reached 1.24 billion US dollars , increasing 6 % over the same period last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first two months of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 36]}, {"entity": "1.24 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [90, 113]}, {"entity": "6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [127, 130]}, {"entity": "the same period last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [136, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , from January to February of this year , the total export volume of Liaoning achieved 1 billion US dollars , increasing by 4.7 percent over the same period last year , including 780 million US dollars of local product export which was mainly finished products .", "entity": [{"entity": "January to February of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 63]}, {"entity": "Liaoning", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 101]}, {"entity": "1 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [111, 131]}, {"entity": "4.7 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [148, 159]}, {"entity": "the same period last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [165, 190]}, {"entity": "780 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [203, 225]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The foreign trade export proportion of Liaoning 's three - capital enterprises has started to increase .", "entity": [{"entity": "Liaoning", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 47]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [51, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In January and February , the export volume of three - capital enterprises for the whole province reached 260 million US dollars , which was twice as much as that of the same period last year , and 12 percent higher than the total export volume of the whole province in the same period last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "January and February", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 23]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "260 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [106, 128]}, {"entity": "the same period last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [166, 191]}, {"entity": "12 percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [198, 208]}, {"entity": "the same period last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [270, 295]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , Liaoning Province possesses more than 100 import and export companies varying in business and administration at the province , city , and county level .", "entity": [{"entity": "Liaoning Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 30]}, {"entity": "more than 100", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [41, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are more than 200 large and medium - sized manufacturing enterprises with import and export authorization and more than 1500 foreign - invested enterprises doing import and export business .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 23]}, {"entity": "more than 1500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [116, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last year , the total achieved import and export volume was 10.99 billion US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "10.99 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [60, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Xi'an , December 30th , by reporter Lianye Zhang", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Xi'an", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "December 30th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 42]}, {"entity": "Lianye Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [57, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At next Spring 's \" '98 negotiation conference on cooperation between east and west China and investment and trade \" , Shaanxi Province will promote public auctioning of a number of small state - owned enterprises to domestic and overseas traveling merchants .", "entity": [{"entity": "next Spring 's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 17]}, {"entity": "'98", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 23]}, {"entity": "negotiation conference on cooperation between east and west China and investment and trade", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [24, 114]}, {"entity": "Shaanxi Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This province has currently drafted preferential policies to encourage state - owned enterprises , collective enterprises , privately - operated enterprises , individually - owned science and technology enterprises , foreign funded enterprises and average people from inside and outside the province using various methods to participate in Shaanxi 's small state - owned enterprise reforms .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shaanxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [340, 347]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It encourages small State - owned enterprises to cross industries , to cross regions and to cross ownership systems to look for co-operation partners and to proactively \" become related by marriage \" with dominant enterprises and to mutually merge .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Small state - owned enterprises of Shaanxi account for over ninety percent of the total number of state - owned enterprises , with fixed assets accounting for more than thirty percent , and the number of employees accounting for over fifty percent of the total number .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shaanxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 42]}, {"entity": "over ninety percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [55, 74]}, {"entity": "more than thirty percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [159, 183]}, {"entity": "fifty percent", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [234, 247]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Shaanxi Province states that next year it will basically give more freedom to provincial small state - owned enterprises to do business .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shaanxi Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Recently issued preferential policies include : appropriate preferences should be granted to enterprises with net assets and relatively good operations , where enterprise assets are sold to lawyers and average people ; for those implementing auctions , related taxes can be reduced or eliminated ; for those implementing shares cooperation system reforms , the state - owned net assets should be first sold to employees of these enterprises .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [396, 401]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Income from transferring enterprise property rights should not only be used for settling employees , but also should be collected for re-investment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Through evaluation , enterprises whose assets and debt are quite balanced will implement a \" zero assets \" sale and debt will go with the assets .", "entity": [{"entity": "zero", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [93, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If sold to employees , the form of these enterprise 's ownership system and employee status will be changed at the same time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If sold to a legal person or an ordinary person who accepts settling employees , the cost of buying seniority of state - owned employees , can be resolved by adopting the method of reducing or eliminating local taxes .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If not settling employees , the cost of buying seniority will be paid from the sale income of the state - owned net assets according to the financial affiliation relationship .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For enterprises whose assets do not offset debt and that are on the verge of bankruptcy , measures can be adopted for reorganization such as reorganizing enterprise management levels , changing methods of enterprise assets operation , and guiding the enterprise organization of structural adjustment , etc .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For enterprises with no hope of revival , bankruptcy must resolutely be implemented according to law .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At bankruptcy , income from liquidating assets should be used first to settle employees and insufficiencies should be made up for from the sale of real estate .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Stock cooperatives are an important form of opening up small state - owned enterprises .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Enterprises whose system is changed in this form can enjoy preferential policies , such as income taxes being returned when they exceed the base , temporarily not levying business tax on fixed assets , etc .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For those implementing mergers , the merging party can enjoy policy - type loss subsidies of the merged enterprise , or the enterprise accumulation fund can also be used to compensate for loss , and insufficiencies can be listed as pre-tax expenditures .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Non-bank debt of reformed enterprises can be transferred from creditor rights to stock ownership ; those having difficulty paying taxes , can implement \" temporarily postponing old debt but not owing on new taxes , and suspending taxes and waiving fines , and paying off year by year \" .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , December 26th , by reporter Xidong Wang", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "December 26th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 44]}, {"entity": "Xidong Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China plans to formulate many new preferential policies to ensure positively , reasonably and effectively utilizing foreign investment and to improve the pattern of opening up to the outside world .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A relevant department of the State Planning Commission presented that , in order to expand channels of utilizing foreign capital , China will actively experiment with and gradually develop a variety of ways such as BOT , project financing and issuing stocks overseas , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "the State Planning Commission", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [25, 54]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [131, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will expand co-operation with developed countries and the widely developing countries , expand fields for opening up to the outside world , and continue experiments utilizing foreign investment in the insurance industry and retail commerce industry .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In industries such as mining resources development and retail , etc. new policies for utilizing foreign investment will be promoted .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Data provided by the State Taxation Administration show that , starting next year , foreign business investment BOT projects will continue to enjoy preferential taxation , and the scope of their preferential policies will include investment enterprises and individual investors engaged in BOT projects .", "entity": [{"entity": "the State Taxation Administration", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 50]}, {"entity": "next year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [72, 81]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A relevant State Council Special Zone Office director expressed that , in order to encourage foreign businessmen to carry out investment in the mid and western areas , foreign businessmen will be allowed , in the mid and western areas , to initiate projects in which China 's industrial policy restricts foreign business investment but which can make use of manpower resources .", "entity": [{"entity": "State Council Special Zone Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 44]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [267, 272]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Moreover , China will encourage Sino - foreign joint investments to construct and operate public docks and berths , and will allow foreign businessmen investing exclusively to construct cargo owners ' wharves and their specialized waterways .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 16]}, {"entity": "Sino - foreign", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [32, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With approval , foreign companies can establish Sino - foreign joint venture shipping companies in China , and foreign shipping companies investing exclusively can establish shipping service companies by following shipping agreements between the two governments .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sino - foreign", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 62]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [99, 104]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [246, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , up to now , China has totally approved over 300,000 foreign - invested enterprises , and has actually utilized foreign investment of about 200 billion US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 43]}, {"entity": "over 300,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [65, 77]}, {"entity": "about 200 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [159, 187]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The utilized foreign investment has accounted for over 20 % of the fixed assets investment of the whole society .", "entity": [{"entity": "over 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [50, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to analysis , due to promotion of enterprise reforms , China 's demand for foreign investment will grow accordingly , and industries invested in by foreign businessmen will also expand daily .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "New policies being successively issued show that China will actively lead the direction of foreign investment to reach the goal of reasonably utilizing foreign investment .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For a future period of time , China will encourage foreign businessmen to invest in new agricultural technology , comprehensive development of land resources , and such basic industries and pillar industries as water conservation , energy , transportation , important raw materials , machinery and electronics , mining , etc. and will encourage foreign businessmen to employ new high level technology to participate in the technical transformation of China 's enterprises", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 35]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [451, 456]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Washington , DC , April 20 , by wire ( reporter Qian Ying )", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Washington , DC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 36]}, {"entity": "April 20", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [39, 47]}, {"entity": "Qian Ying", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [69, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Chinese branch of the American Chamber of Commerce recently dispatched a delegation made up of twenty - five people launching a month - long lobbying campaign in Washington directed at congress and the White House , asking them to continue to extend granting China most - favored - nation trading status .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "the American Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [22, 54]}, {"entity": "twenty - five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [99, 112]}, {"entity": "month - long", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [132, 144]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [166, 176]}, {"entity": "the White House", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [202, 217]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [263, 268]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Chamber of Commerce delegates participating in this lobbying campaign come from many well - known in Washington , large American companies , such as Dow Jones , AT&T , IBM , Boeing , McDonald Douglas , General Electric , Westinghouse , Ford , and the Xian Ni Lei De Group , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 23]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [105, 115]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [124, 132]}, {"entity": "Dow Jones", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [153, 162]}, {"entity": "AT&T", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [165, 169]}, {"entity": "IBM", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [172, 175]}, {"entity": "Boeing", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [178, 184]}, {"entity": "McDonald Douglas", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [187, 203]}, {"entity": "General Electric", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [206, 222]}, {"entity": "Westinghouse", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [225, 237]}, {"entity": "Ford", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [240, 244]}, {"entity": "the Xian Ni Lei De Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [251, 275]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They split into five groups and altogether visited about 150 members of congress , congressional aides , and government officials , using their experience of investing in and managing enterprises in China to explain the necessity of extending giving China most - favored - nation trading status .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [16, 20]}, {"entity": "150", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 60]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [199, 204]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [250, 255]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the once - a - year deliberations by the American administration and congress concerning the question of China 's most - favored - nation trading status again approaching , American businesses in Washington are universally concerned that the disputes among America 's political parties in this big election year could make this question even more complicated , hence the organization of groups to carry out a lobbying campaign directed at them that is organized and is planned .", "entity": [{"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [46, 54]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [110, 115]}, {"entity": "American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [178, 186]}, {"entity": "Washington", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [201, 211]}, {"entity": "America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [262, 269]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Zhen Wang , a businessman of Chinese descent who is representing the Guangzhou chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce and the Xian Ni Lei De Group and is participating in the lobbying team , said to this reporter that , as a follow - up action to this lobbying effort , he prepared to mobilize tens of thousands of distributors who belong to the company to write to their local congressional representatives to support extending China 's most - favored - nation trading status .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zhen Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [29, 36]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 78]}, {"entity": "the American Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 122]}, {"entity": "the Xian Ni Lei De Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [127, 151]}, {"entity": "tens of thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [299, 316]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [434, 439]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The head of the Guangdong branch of the American Chamber of Commerce , the attorney Yonghua Kang , said the Clinton administration had already demonstrated that it wanted to extend China 's most - favored - nation trading status and because of this , the focus of this round of lobbying was those members of congress who are more conservative .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 25]}, {"entity": "the American Chamber of Commerce", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [36, 68]}, {"entity": "Yonghua Kang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [84, 96]}, {"entity": "Clinton", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [108, 115]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [181, 186]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Ningbo , February 7th , by reporters Hongwei Hu and Jicheng Chai", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Ningbo", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 27]}, {"entity": "February 7th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 42]}, {"entity": "Hongwei Hu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 68]}, {"entity": "Jicheng Chai", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [73, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Ningbo Bonded Area , which occupies a total area of 2.3 square kilometers , has made substantial achievements after 3 years of construction .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Ningbo Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "2.3 square kilometers", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [56, 77]}, {"entity": "3 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [120, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Ningbo Bonded Area is one of the 13 bonded areas in China and was established after approval by the State Council in 1992 .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Ningbo Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "13", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [37, 39]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "the State Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 117]}, {"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [121, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , the various functions of the bonded area have fundamentally taken shaped , and its development level is high among all the bonded areas in China .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [152, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , by the end of last year , import and export trade of the Ningbo Bonded Area added up to 812 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "the end of last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 49]}, {"entity": "the Ningbo Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 101]}, {"entity": "812 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [114, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the last year alone , import and export trade amounts going through customs of the bonded area reached 365 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last year alone", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 22]}, {"entity": "365 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [106, 128]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , there are 10 bonded warehouses in the area , the storage area of which is more than 80,000 square meters .", "entity": [{"entity": "10", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [23, 25]}, {"entity": "more than 80,000 square meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [87, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the last year alone , the value of goods stored in the area reached 2.627 billion yuan RMB .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last year alone", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 22]}, {"entity": "2.627 billion yuan RMB", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [71, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the adjustment of related special policies outside the bonded areas in China starting in April of this year , the advantage of the bonded area 's stability in certificate - free , duty - free and bonded policies is becoming more obvious .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 81]}, {"entity": "April of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [94, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A great number of industrial processing projects come to the area successively from inside and outside the country .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "By the end of last December , the total number of enterprises in the bonded area was 1,614 , of which 260 were foreign - invested enterprises and the total investment reached 1.2 billion US dollars , with an actual utilized foreign investment of 113 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "the end of last December", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 27]}, {"entity": "1,614", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [85, 90]}, {"entity": "260", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [102, 105]}, {"entity": "1.2 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [175, 197]}, {"entity": "113 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [246, 268]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Additionally , a large number of domestic enterprises coupled themselves with the international market through the bonded area .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To complement the bonded area with operations , the Ningbo Bonded Area has taken the lead in China in implementing trial one - stop management and one - time handling of direct , legal enterprise registration .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Ningbo Bonded Area", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 70]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the same time , the bonded zone is taking a firm hold in the construction of a network system for the information highway in the area so as to create favorable complementary conditions for the realization of modernized management .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , September 1st , by reporter Liang Zhou", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "September 1st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 44]}, {"entity": "Liang Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China 's down and down products industry has arisen rapidly in the past ten - odd years and has now become an important component of light industry , with both annual export volumes and export values accounting for half of the world 's total volume of down trade , and being well received in the international down market .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "the past ten - odd years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [63, 87]}, {"entity": "half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [215, 219]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China 's down and down products industry started its rapid development in the mid '80s .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "the mid '80s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [74, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The entire industry makes use of China 's resources and manpower advantage , and additionally stresses introducing advanced foreign technology and equipment , thus increasing production volume and quality by a large margin .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to incomplete statistics , China currently has over 3,000 down and down product enterprises , among which , those above scale have reached more than 600 , with employed staff of about 300,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 42]}, {"entity": "over 3,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 67]}, {"entity": "more than 600", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [149, 162]}, {"entity": "about 300,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [188, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It has an annual production capacity of 50 million down products with a total annual industrial output value reaching 8 billion yuan .", "entity": [{"entity": "50 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [40, 50]}, {"entity": "8 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [118, 132]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Through more than ten years ' market development , China has now become the world 's main down manufacturing country and down products export country , annually exporting nearly 30,000 tons of down and over 20 million down products , with earned foreign exchange reaching 820 million US dollars , including down clothing export values accounting for more than 50 % of total industry export values .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than ten years '", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [8, 29]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 56]}, {"entity": "nearly 30,000 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [171, 189]}, {"entity": "over 20 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [202, 217]}, {"entity": "820 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [272, 294]}, {"entity": "more than 50 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [350, 364]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to presentations , the quality of China 's down industry products has shown a trend of stable increase .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the first half of this year , the country selectively examined 56 down clothing enterprises , and products of 47 enterprises passed completely , accounting for 84 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first half of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 30]}, {"entity": "56", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [66, 68]}, {"entity": "47", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [113, 115]}, {"entity": "84 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [163, 167]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In market competition , products such as Jiangxi 's Yaya brand , Beijing 's Yililan brand , Guangdong 's Galanz brand , and Sichuan 's Tian'ge brand , etc. have great reputations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jiangxi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 48]}, {"entity": "Yaya", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 72]}, {"entity": "Yililan", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 83]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 101]}, {"entity": "Galanz", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [105, 111]}, {"entity": "Sichuan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [124, 131]}, {"entity": "Tian'ge", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [135, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Guangzhou , April 23rd , by reporter correspondent Shengmin Zhao", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 30]}, {"entity": "April 23rd", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 43]}, {"entity": "Shengmin Zhao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guangzhou 's private sector economy is developing swiftly , enterprise scale is gradually enlarging , and has begun to develop towards the area of high and new technology industries .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , by the first quarter of this year , the number of registered private enterprises in Guangzhou has reached 7646 .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first quarter of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 59]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [110, 119]}, {"entity": "7646", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [132, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are 97,963 employed people , and registered capital of private enterprises is more than 3.08 billion yuan , respectively 10 % to 20 % higher than that of the same period of the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "97,963", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 16]}, {"entity": "more than 3.08 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [84, 111]}, {"entity": "10 % to 20 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [127, 139]}, {"entity": "the same period of the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [160, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the first quarter of this year , the development of Guangzhou 's privately owned enterprises again showed many characteristics : all walks of life are developing extensively , and the development of industry and commerce is remarkable .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first quarter of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 33]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 64]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Privately owned industry and commercial enterprises total 5836 .", "entity": [{"entity": "5836", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [58, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In the first quarter of this year , the number of science and technology consulting enterprises in Guangzhou has reached 534 , more than double of that of the same period of the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the first quarter of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 33]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [99, 108]}, {"entity": "534", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [121, 124]}, {"entity": "the same period of the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [155, 191]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Shanghai , August 31st , by reporter Jierong Zhou", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "August 31st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 43]}, {"entity": "Jierong Zhou", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "US Commerce Secretary Brown , who is visiting China now , said here today that Shanghai is a city whose economy is rapidly developing .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 27]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 73]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Brown expressed that , both sides could achieve further co-operation in the areas of transportation , telecommunication , power generation , financial services etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Today , Brown separately attended the signing of a 20 - year joint investment agreement between a world famous power plant equipment manufacturer -- the US 's Westinghouse Company and the Shanghai Electric Group ; and the signing of a joint investment agreement between the US 's General Electric Capital Company and the Shanghai Electricity Company to jointly invest in and establish a combustible engine electric power generation company .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 13]}, {"entity": "20 - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [51, 60]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [153, 155]}, {"entity": "Westinghouse Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [159, 179]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Electric Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [184, 211]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [274, 276]}, {"entity": "General Electric Capital Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [280, 312]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Electricity Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [317, 349]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is reported that , the joint - investment agreement between the US Westinghouse Company and the Shanghai Electric Group included the joint manufacture of key components of 300,000 kW thermal power generating units , and simultaneously expanding co-operation in various areas of 600,000 kW units .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 69]}, {"entity": "Westinghouse Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [70, 90]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Electric Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [95, 122]}, {"entity": "300,000 kW", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [175, 185]}, {"entity": "600,000 kW", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [281, 291]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Co-operation between the US General Electric Capital Company and the Shanghai Electric Company included investment in building 4 sets of 100,000 kW class turbine generating units .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 27]}, {"entity": "General Electric Capital Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 60]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Electric Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 94]}, {"entity": "4", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [127, 128]}, {"entity": "100,000 kW", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [137, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This afternoon , Brown also visited Shanghai 's AMP Linking Company , Ltd. , which was jointly invested and built by the Shanghai Electric Component Company and the US AMP China Limited Company , situated in Shanghai 's Caohejing high - tech development district .", "entity": [{"entity": "This afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 22]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 44]}, {"entity": "AMP Linking Company , Ltd.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [48, 74]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Electric Component Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [117, 156]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [165, 167]}, {"entity": "AMP China Limited Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [168, 193]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [208, 216]}, {"entity": "Caohejing", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [220, 229]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He also cut the ribbon for the sixth US Boeing aircraft , which was introduced by Shanghai Airlines .", "entity": [{"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [37, 39]}, {"entity": "Boeing aircraft", "entity_type": "product", "pos": [40, 55]}, {"entity": "Shanghai Airlines", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [82, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Committee member of the CCP Central Politburo , and Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee , Bangguo Wu met with Brown this afternoon and introduced the progress and development prospects of reforms and opening up in Shanghai .", "entity": [{"entity": "the CCP Central Politburo", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 45]}, {"entity": "the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 103]}, {"entity": "Bangguo Wu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [106, 116]}, {"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [126, 131]}, {"entity": "this afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [132, 146]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [230, 238]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Brown and his delegation left Shanghai for Guangzhou tonight .", "entity": [{"entity": "Brown", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 38]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [43, 52]}, {"entity": "tonight", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [53, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The representative to Shanghai 's Mayor , and Municipal Foreign Economic and Trade Committee Director , Zukang Wang went to the airport to escort the US guests .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 30]}, {"entity": "Municipal Foreign Economic and Trade Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 92]}, {"entity": "Zukang Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [104, 115]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , August 31st", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "August 31st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The main Bureau of Customs recently issued an announcement that Customs would implement protective measures for intellectual property rights at border entry and exit junctions starting on September 15th , 1994 in accordance with currently implemented related laws and the \" decision regarding the further strengthening of work protecting intellectual property rights \" by the State Council .", "entity": [{"entity": "Bureau of Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 26]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 71]}, {"entity": "September 15th , 1994", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [188, 209]}, {"entity": "the State Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [372, 389]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The announcement clearly pointed out that goods violating intellectual property rights , including exclusive rights of trademarks , copyrights and patent rights , were not allowed to be imported or exported ; when Customs discovers the import and export of goods that are reported as violating rights and other goods that were suspected of violating intellectual property rights , it has the right to ask the people importing and exporting the goods to provide legal proof of use of related intellectual property rights and make additional reports to Customs about the state of the intellectual property rights of goods .", "entity": [{"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [214, 221]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [551, 558]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Customs is entitled to reject shipments of goods that can not provide legal proof ; for importing and exporting laser discs , laser video discs and importing laser disc molds and materials and laser videos as part of processing trade , the consignors and consignees shall complete Customs formalities based on relevant regulations of the country and proof of approval issued by relevant departments concerned with audio and video products ; when importing and exporting goods , if the consignors and consignees falsify conditions of the property rights of the goods , evade supervision of Customs , and smuggle goods that violate rights , Customs will handle them in accordance with the relevant regulations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [281, 288]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [589, 596]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [639, 646]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The announcement also made some stipulations about the rights , responsibilities and obligations of the owners of intellectual property rights .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The owners of intellectual property rights who are protected by China 's law can report to local Customs when they discover that goods that violate their rights are going to be imported or exported .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 69]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Based on rights certificates of the intellectual property rights ( for example certificates of registration of intellectual property rights or samples of the works that are copyrighted and related materials sufficient to prove their rights ) , they can report to Custom locations where the relevant goods are imported or exported and also request Customs to investigate and deal with the import and export of goods that violate .", "entity": [{"entity": "Custom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [263, 269]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [347, 354]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Owners of intellectual property rights , when requesting Customs to investigate and deal with goods that violate rights , should bear responsibility for reporting , assist Customs to develop investigation work and pay the appraisal and investigation of the related goods and other related expenses .", "entity": [{"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [57, 64]}, {"entity": "Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [172, 179]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , August 31 , by wire", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "August 31", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Israel 's Foreign Minister , Shimon Peres , said that China , by persevering in going its own way , and concentrating its efforts on conquering poverty set an example for the people of every country of the Middle East .", "entity": [{"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": ", Shimon Peres ,", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 43]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [54, 59]}, {"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [202, 217]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Yet the people of our two countries nevertheless are similar to one another .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [22, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The great Chinese people offered up to the world cultural riches on the spiritual plane and material plane .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [10, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If these riches did n't exist , people would not be able to describe the course of history . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said in addition : \" We who live in western Asia are gazing at the east with a look of hope and reverence .", "entity": [{"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [47, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China has already demonstrated to the entire world that the strategy for resolving the question of poverty in society lies in carrying out a plan that has been reasoned out and in concentrating strength towards a task that has a reasonable hope of success . . . . . . .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "China still believes in the path that it itself has specified .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the past it has not yielded to any pressure from outside , and now it still unswervingly defends the right to determine its own future for itself . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The author starts the discussion from September of that year with Israel 's signing the Declaration of Principles of Palestinian Autonomy with the Palestine Liberation Organization , and looks back at the complex struggles of the Middle East over the past several hundred years , especially the most recent half century .", "entity": [{"entity": "September of that year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 60]}, {"entity": "Israel", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 72]}, {"entity": "the Declaration of Principles of Palestinian Autonomy with the Palestine Liberation Organization", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [84, 180]}, {"entity": "the Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [226, 241]}, {"entity": "the past several hundred years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [247, 277]}, {"entity": "the most recent half century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [291, 319]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He expresses his views on building a new Middle East in the future .", "entity": [{"entity": "Middle East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [41, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He points out , \" At a time when we are on the threshold of the 21st century , warfare no longer has any use .", "entity": [{"entity": "the 21st century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [60, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The important problems we are up against are how to conquer poverty and scarcity . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To do this , he emphasized , \" We must control the desert that is day - by - day eroding arable land , develop new sources of water , and carry out new engineering projects . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Peres pointed out that these goals are not likely to be realized easily .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peres", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He observed , \" China has already demonstrated that it could conquer poverty and the misery that generations of people have suffered .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We hope that China becomes a model that the people of all Middle Eastern countries , including both Israelis and Arabs , can imitate on the road that we walk together heading towards the future .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "Middle Eastern", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [58, 72]}, {"entity": "Israelis", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [100, 108]}, {"entity": "Arabs", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [113, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Chinese edition of the book \" The New Middle East \" has already recently been published and distributed through Xinhua Publishing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "\" The New Middle East \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [32, 55]}, {"entity": "Xinhua Publishing", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Jinan , September 2nd , by reporter Baixin Zhang", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Jinan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "September 2nd", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 42]}, {"entity": "Baixin Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [57, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Laiwu City of Shandong Province has established a cell structure cultivation center inside the agricultural new high level technology development and model zones , to introduce and tame improved breeds of nurseries , flowers and vegetables from home and abroad .", "entity": [{"entity": "Laiwu City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Shandong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [14, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "According to understanding , currently Shandong has established ten agricultural new high level technology development and model zones similar to that of Laiwu City .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 47]}, {"entity": "ten", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [64, 67]}, {"entity": "Laiwu City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [154, 164]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A government official of Shandong Province told this reporter that this province established agricultural new high level technology development and model zones beginning in 1992 , whose main purpose is to accelerate the transformation of agricultural new high level technology achievements through introducing agricultural new high level technologies from home and abroad to carry out development in order to provide effective models for agricultural production and rural economy development to promote the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 42]}, {"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [173, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "To accelerate construction of the model zones , Shandong Province has totally invested capital of more than 62 million yuan , with a construction area reaching 218,000 square meters .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 65]}, {"entity": "62 million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [108, 123]}, {"entity": "218,000 square meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [160, 181]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The model zones have basically implemented the four conveniences of water , electricity , roads and telecommunications .", "entity": [{"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [47, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the agricultural new high level technology development and model zone of Zibo City in the Zhangdian District , plan to establish a agricultural scientific research training institute , a breeding area for improved agricultural varieties , an organic vegetable area , a quality orchard , the fine stock breeding farm , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Zibo City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 85]}, {"entity": "the Zhangdian District", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 111]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "They have also bred 200,000 toxin - free fruit tree nurseries .", "entity": [{"entity": "200,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "New high level technology development and model zones have become Shandong 's agricultural \" model gardens \" .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many peasants often come here to learn techniques and purchase quality varieties .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The modeling and leading effects of the model zones have become larger and larger .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Laiwu City has established a detoxification production base to carry out nursery detoxification on traditional products such as shallot , ginger and garlic , and after detoxification , the output of shallot , ginger and garlic has increased more than doubled .", "entity": [{"entity": "Laiwu City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Guangzhou , September 1st , by reporter Wei Zhao", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 30]}, {"entity": "September 1st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 46]}, {"entity": "Wei Zhao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the past two years , Guangdong Province has exerted itself to explore new ways of attracting talent under market economy conditions , and has been active in using market mechanisms to allocate resources of talent , and has achieved preliminary results .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 21]}, {"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Taking the first step \" in Guangdong 's reform and opening up in the 1980's was closely related to the situation at that time of the \" Peafowl Flying Towards the Southeast \" ( human talents from all over , one after another , going to Guangdong ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [13, 18]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 38]}, {"entity": "the 1980's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [67, 77]}, {"entity": "Peafowl Flying Towards the Southeast", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [137, 173]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [237, 246]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With the overall opening up of China 's coastal areas , frontier areas , riverside areas and capital cities of every province since the 1990's , the flow of talent tends to be multi-directional and the competition has become increasingly fierce .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 36]}, {"entity": "since the 1990's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [126, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Further enhancing the attraction to talented persons has become the key point of Guangdong 's further development .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Limo Qin , director of the Talent Exchange and Service Center of Guangdong Province has done analysis and said : \" the economic development rate of Guangdong in 1993 was at an intermediate level of that in the recent years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Limo Qin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "the Talent Exchange and Service Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 61]}, {"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 83]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [148, 157]}, {"entity": "1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [161, 165]}, {"entity": "the recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [206, 222]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In that year it introduced more than 100,000 talented persons of various types .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 100,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [27, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Developing at this rate , in the next ten years , not including graduates from higher education institutes , Guangdong 's talent gap is conservatively estimated to surpass 1 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "the next ten years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 47]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 118]}, {"entity": "1 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [172, 181]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Therefore , further opening minds and introducing talent are guidelines of Guangdong 's policy regarding talented people . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In recent years , there have been more and more climaxes in Guangdong 's talent market .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 15]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [60, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Each year , there are several large - scale talent employment fairs whose service for more than 1000 employers and more than 10,000 applicants lasts for more than half a month .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 1000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [86, 100]}, {"entity": "more than 10,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [115, 131]}, {"entity": "more than half a month", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [153, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the whole year of 1993 , talent exchange centers of personnel departments across the province registered more than 463,000 people applying for jobs .", "entity": [{"entity": "the whole year of 1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 25]}, {"entity": "more than 463,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [108, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There were 62,000 people with documents of transfer or employment processed , of which 45.8 % had intermediate or advanced level titles of specialty or profession , and 78 % had an undergraduate or higher degree .", "entity": [{"entity": "62,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [11, 17]}, {"entity": "45.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [87, 93]}, {"entity": "78 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [169, 173]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Talent introduction departments also actively went out visiting science and technology management talent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fourteen cities such as Guangzhou , Shenzhen , etc. went to Beijing for the first national talent and technology exchange fair , where they established a total of 100 employment booths .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fourteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 33]}, {"entity": "Shenzhen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 44]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [60, 67]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [76, 81]}, {"entity": "100", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [163, 166]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the beginning of 1993 , six cities such as Zhuhai , Foshan , etc. also organized a delegation to advertise in the US and Canada for students studying abroad .", "entity": [{"entity": "the beginning of 1993", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 24]}, {"entity": "six", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [27, 30]}, {"entity": "Zhuhai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 52]}, {"entity": "Foshan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 61]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 119]}, {"entity": "Canada", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [124, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "1006 students abroad filled out application forms , and quite a number of people have successively returned to China to take jobs .", "entity": [{"entity": "1006", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [111, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the same time , the construction of talent market is also accelerating .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since 1991 when Shenzhen established the first standing talent market , such \" all - weather \" talent exchange organizations have rapidly spread in the Zhujiang Delta and all cities within the province .", "entity": [{"entity": "Since 1991", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "Shenzhen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 24]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [41, 46]}, {"entity": "the Zhujiang Delta", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [148, 166]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , there are fifteen cities with relatively more advanced economies in the province having built up regular markets .", "entity": [{"entity": "fifteen", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [16, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to further enhance the attraction of talent , to break through the barrier of \" departmental ownership \" of talent , and to promote the flow of talent by forming mechanisms of independent employment and job choice , Guangdong Province has also paid greater attention to the formulation of relevant policies and regulations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [225, 243]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Limo Qin said in his introduction that in recent years the provincial government has successively issued documents such as \" Temporary regulations on encouraging persons studying abroad to work in Guangdong \" , \" Notices on better advertising for talent \" , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Limo Qin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [42, 54]}, {"entity": "\" Temporary regulations on encouraging persons studying abroad to work in Guangdong \"", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [123, 208]}, {"entity": "\" Notices on better advertising for talent \"", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [211, 255]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will soon promulgate documents such as \" Detailed rules for implementing temporary regulations on resignations of specialists , technicians and managers in state - owned units \" and \" Supplementary regulations of Guangdong Province on the management of Chinese side cadres in foreign investment enterprises \" , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "\" Detailed rules for implementing temporary regulations on resignations of specialists , technicians and managers in state - owned units \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [42, 180]}, {"entity": "\" Supplementary regulations of Guangdong Province on the management of Chinese side cadres in foreign investment enterprises \"", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [185, 311]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Additionally , some new methods in inviting and managing talent have been being tried in various regions .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Guangzhou , September 1 , by wire ( reporter Xiaoguang Han )", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 30]}, {"entity": "September 1", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 44]}, {"entity": "Xiaoguang Han", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [66, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guangdong Province , fully utilizing its geographical advantage of being in close proximity to Hong Kong and Macao and being located in the Asian tropics , is vigorously developing extroverted agriculture .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 104]}, {"entity": "Macao", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 114]}, {"entity": "Asian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [140, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to statistics , in recent years , the export volume of Guangdong Province 's agricultural and secondary products and processed products has always been in the forefront in the nation .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 41]}, {"entity": "Guangdong Province 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 86]}, {"entity": "secondary", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [104, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last year , its foreign exchange income was up to more than 2.1 billion US dollars , and in the first half of this year exports again had new growth .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "more than 2.1 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [50, 82]}, {"entity": "the first half of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [92, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the countryside of southern Guangdong , this reporter learned that vegetable plots have an abundance of green and lush western lettuce , western celery , western cauliflower ; fish ponds have an abundance of vigorous Californian perch , whitish pomfret ; while flower farmers take care of lovely western flowers such as Dutch tulips , Belgium azalea , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 40]}, {"entity": "Californian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [220, 231]}, {"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [323, 328]}, {"entity": "Belgium", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [338, 345]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guangdong farmers who have tasted the sweetness of agriculture that earns foreign exchange are actively bringing in and carefully cultivating excellent , rare , famous and precious varieties .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Various improved domestic and foreign varieties of flowers , fruits , trees , grasses , vegetables , fish , poultry , animals , etc. are successively settling down in Lingnan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lingnan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [167, 174]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to Guangdong 's Department of Agriculture statistics , since the mid-80s , Guangdong has attracted more than 1100 improved species of foreign animals and plants , among which more than 300 have been marketed to farmers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 22]}, {"entity": "Department of Agriculture", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 51]}, {"entity": "since the mid-80s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 82]}, {"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 94]}, {"entity": "more than 1100", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [109, 123]}, {"entity": "more than 300", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [185, 198]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Various regions have introduced more than 30,000 sets of advanced processing equipment and technologies , and expanded agricultural product processing capacity .", "entity": [{"entity": "more than 30,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [32, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Improvement of the structure of the varieties strengthens the competitiveness of Guangdong 's agricultural products in the international market , and economic benefits have also tremendously increased .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to satisfy the requirements of the continuously expanding overseas markets , various areas of Guangdong have adjusted to local conditions and selected famous , special and improved varieties , and have built up more than 2,000 agricultural export merchandise production and processing bases .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [103, 112]}, {"entity": "more than 2,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [220, 235]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to make up for deficiencies in investment funds , Guangdong Province has tried every possible means to attract foreign capital .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The entire province has actually utilized foreign funds of nearly 1 billion US dollars , and has established a large number of extroverted agricultural \" three capital \" enterprises which combine agriculture , industry , trade and technology and integrate manufacturing , supply and marketing , and through foreign merchants sales channels , it has also expanded its export of agricultural products .", "entity": [{"entity": "nearly 1 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [59, 86]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [154, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , September 1st", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "September 1st", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the press conference held this afternoon , Guofang Shen , spokesman of the Foreign Ministry , answered reporters ' questions such as the issue of Hong Kong and concerning the \" 1995 financial year overseas activities fund appropriation act \" of the US , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "this afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [29, 43]}, {"entity": "Guofang Shen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [46, 58]}, {"entity": "the Foreign Ministry", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 94]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [149, 158]}, {"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [180, 184]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [252, 254]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A reporter asked : the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress had passed a resolution regarding \" the three - tiered administrative system of Hong Kong will operate until June 30th , 1997 , and then cease . \" ;", "entity": [{"entity": "the Standing Committee of the National People 's Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 76]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [117, 122]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 166]}, {"entity": "June 30th , 1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [186, 202]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then , what will the three - level Chinese restructured administrative system be like ?", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [35, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And when does the Chinese side plan to set about preparing to construct this system ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [18, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guofang Shen said that the HK - UK three - level administrative system , namely the last HK - UK legislative council , the two municipal departments , and the district parliament will only exist till June 30th , 1997 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guofang Shen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "HK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 29]}, {"entity": "UK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 34]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [35, 40]}, {"entity": "HK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 91]}, {"entity": "UK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 96]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [123, 126]}, {"entity": "June 30th , 1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [200, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the inevitable outcome of the UK terminating its rule over Hong Kong at the designated time .", "entity": [{"entity": "UK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 40]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 76]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said that the Chinese government has repeatedly stated that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's first legislative assembly and regional organizations will be formed according to the Basic Law and relevant resolutions of the National People 's Congress .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 24]}, {"entity": "the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 109]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [110, 115]}, {"entity": "the Basic Law", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [192, 205]}, {"entity": "the National People 's Congress", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [234, 265]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , the Preparatory Work Committee of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is studying relevant specific issues on forming the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's first legislative assembly , and will submit suggestions to the Preparatory Committee that will be established in 1996 .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Preparatory Work Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 42]}, {"entity": "the Preparatory Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 71]}, {"entity": "the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 118]}, {"entity": "the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [167, 213]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [214, 219]}, {"entity": "the Preparatory Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [274, 299]}, {"entity": "1996", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [328, 332]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A reporter asked : on August 23rd , the US president signed the \" 1995 financial year overseas activities fund appropriation act \" in which it is stipulated that any donation made by the US to the UN population fund must not be used in China .", "entity": [{"entity": "August 23rd", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [22, 33]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 42]}, {"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [66, 70]}, {"entity": "financial year overseas activities fund appropriation act", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [71, 128]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [187, 189]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [197, 199]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [236, 241]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What is your opinion of this ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Guofang Shen said that this bill is a bill carrying political discrimination and extremely unfriendly to China .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guofang Shen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [105, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is an insult to China 's family planning policy , has seriously violated the mission and principles of the UN charter , and sets a very bad precedent for the provision of aid to multi-lateral organizations of the UN .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 24]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 112]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [216, 218]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He pointed out that \" we resolutely oppose any country providing donations with attached conditions to the population fund .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We do not hope to see the work of the UN population fund receiving interference or even being diverted from its principles and mission due to pressure from the US . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [38, 40]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [160, 162]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This afternoon , vice premier of the State Council and Foreign Affairs Minister Qichen Qian met here individually with former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre and vice Foreign Affairs Minister of Paraguay East Coast Republic Hershy Maria Carmel .", "entity": [{"entity": "This afternoon", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "the State Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 50]}, {"entity": "Affairs Minister", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 79]}, {"entity": "Qichen Qian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [80, 91]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [126, 132]}, {"entity": "Raymond Barre", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [148, 161]}, {"entity": "Foreign Affairs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 186]}, {"entity": "Paraguay East Coast Republic", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [199, 227]}, {"entity": "Hershy Maria Carmel", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [228, 247]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Qichen Qian told the French guest that France is the first big western country to establish diplomatic relations with China , and that over the past 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France , the development of bilateral relations has been satisfactory overall despite some complications .", "entity": [{"entity": "Qichen Qian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 27]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 45]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [53, 58]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [118, 123]}, {"entity": "over the past 30 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [135, 157]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [214, 219]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [224, 230]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He pointed out that regardless of whatever major changes happen in the international situation , maintaining friendly relations between the two countries , namely China and France , will always be important for the peace , stability and development of the world .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [140, 143]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [163, 168]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [173, 179]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Both sides also exchanged views on relevant problems such as the security situation and economic development in Asia , the unification of Europe , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [112, 116]}, {"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [138, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Barre hoped that Franco - Chinese relations would achieve further development and strengthening , and also expressed that France , using its dominant position , was willing to more actively participate in the economic build - up of China .", "entity": [{"entity": "Barre", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Franco - Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 33]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 128]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [232, 237]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "President of the Foreign Affairs Institute Shuqin Liu was also present at the meeting .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Foreign Affairs Institute", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 42]}, {"entity": "Shuqin Liu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In his meeting with the Uruguayan guests , Qichen Qian expressed welcome over the visit by vice Foreign Affairs Minister Kamyao and the political consultations in progress .", "entity": [{"entity": "Uruguayan", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [24, 33]}, {"entity": "Qichen Qian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [43, 54]}, {"entity": "Foreign Affairs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [96, 111]}, {"entity": "Kamyao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [121, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said that for the more than six years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Uruguay , the friendly co-operative relations between the two countries had continued its steady development .", "entity": [{"entity": "the more than six years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [17, 40]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 114]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [165, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uruguay is one of the earliest countries in the Latin American region to develop trade with China , and bilateral trade development has been relatively rapid .", "entity": [{"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [11, 14]}, {"entity": "the Latin American region", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [44, 69]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He hoped that henceforth , both countries ' co-operation and interaction in economics , trade and technology would further expand and develop .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Qichen Qian expressed his gratitude towards the support Uruguay has given to China in international affairs , and expressed commendation over Uruguay government 's position of persisting in their one - China stance .", "entity": [{"entity": "Qichen Qian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 63]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 82]}, {"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [142, 149]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [196, 199]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [202, 207]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said , Latin America was a continent filled with hopes , and possessed huge development potential .", "entity": [{"entity": "Latin America", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [10, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In recent years , the Latin American economy has steadily grown , which has provided good conditions for further strengthening economic and trade co-operation between China and Latin America .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 15]}, {"entity": "Latin American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [22, 36]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [167, 172]}, {"entity": "Latin America", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [177, 190]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said , China puts great importance on strengthening friendly co-operative relations with countries of the southern common market , including Uruguay , and other Latin American countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 15]}, {"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [144, 151]}, {"entity": "Latin American", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [164, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kamyao expressed , Uruguay puts great importance on developing relations with China in areas such as economics , trade , science , technology , culture , etc .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kamyao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [19, 26]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said , in the early 70's China recovered a legal seat in the United Nations , and this was a major development in the affairs of United Nations .", "entity": [{"entity": "the early 70's", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [13, 27]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 33]}, {"entity": "the United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 78]}, {"entity": "United Nations", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [132, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uruguay highly commended China on playing an increasingly important role in international affairs , especially the active role taken in building a new political and economic world order .", "entity": [{"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Uruguay resolutely supports the recovery of China 's status as a signatory country of GATT , and believes that it will make active contributions in the future World Trade Organization .", "entity": [{"entity": "Uruguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 49]}, {"entity": "GATT", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [86, 90]}, {"entity": "World Trade Organization", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [159, 183]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This morning , Kamyao represented the Paraguay government in presenting China 's Weaving Association with 17 tons of wool for the purpose of scientific research by relevant Chinese departments , scientific research organizations and other high level institutes .", "entity": [{"entity": "This morning", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "Kamyao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 21]}, {"entity": "Paraguay", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 46]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 77]}, {"entity": "Weaving Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [81, 100]}, {"entity": "17 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [106, 113]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [173, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Vice Foreign Affairs Minister Huaqiu Liu held talks with Kamyao here on the 29th .", "entity": [{"entity": "Foreign Affairs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [5, 20]}, {"entity": "Huaqiu Liu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 40]}, {"entity": "Kamyao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [57, 63]}, {"entity": "the 29th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [72, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Both parties exchanged opinions in depth regarding further developing bilateral relations and also international and regional problems that were of common concern , and they achieved widespread agreement .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kamyao and his entourage , were invited by the Foreign Ministry for a visit to China and arrived on August 29th to carry out political consultations between the two countries ' foreign affair ministries .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kamyao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 6]}, {"entity": "the Foreign Ministry", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 63]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 84]}, {"entity": "August 29th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [100, 111]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [161, 164]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The Wangma Computer Company , a high science and technology enterprise in Beijing 's Zhongguan village , held a press conference in the Great Hall Of the People on January 4th and announced : to meet urgent demands for office automation of all Party departments , the government and the army , it was decided to \" open \" a whole set of top - quality products of Wangma Software , which can profit more than one million yuan , to the home , all in the way to non-encoded floppy disks , exempting technical fees , so that all domestic computer users can copy and use .", "entity": [{"entity": "The Wangma Computer Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 27]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 81]}, {"entity": "Zhongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 94]}, {"entity": "the Great Hall Of the People", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [132, 160]}, {"entity": "January 4th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [164, 175]}, {"entity": "Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [244, 249]}, {"entity": "Wangma Software", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [362, 377]}, {"entity": "more than one million yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [397, 423]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The statistics from the General Administration of Customs show that , last year , China 's trade with Japan continued increasing , the gross value of imports and exports reached 60.06 billion US dollars , 4.5 % higher than that of last year , and accounted for 20.7 % of China 's gross value of foreign trade .", "entity": [{"entity": "the General Administration of Customs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [20, 57]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [70, 79]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 87]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [102, 107]}, {"entity": "60.06 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [178, 202]}, {"entity": "4.5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [205, 210]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [231, 240]}, {"entity": "20.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [261, 267]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [271, 276]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "According to presentations , the dependency of China 's exported products on the Japanese market has been increasing annually , but the proportion of imported products in the total import volume from Japan has fluctuated irregularly ; the development of various trade methods was not balanced , general trade has decreased , processing trade has increased ; while the growth of primary product trade was considerably fast .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 52]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [81, 89]}, {"entity": "Japan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [200, 205]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Today , Peilice Dekuliar , the UN Secretary - General , expressed grief at the multi-national forces air striking Baghdad resulting in civilians deaths .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Peilice Dekuliar", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 24]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 33]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 121]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Julileah , spokesman for the Secretary - General said in a statement that Peilice Dekuliar felt deep grief that so many civilians in Iraq had died in the air attack .", "entity": [{"entity": "Julileah", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Peilice Dekuliar", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [74, 90]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [133, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to a news report on February 14th by Xinhua News Agency from Beijing , when the multi-national forces carried out an air attack on Baghdad on the 13th , hundreds of civilians were killed in the bombing .", "entity": [{"entity": "February 14th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 43]}, {"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [47, 65]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 78]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [141, 148]}, {"entity": "the 13th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [152, 160]}, {"entity": "hundreds", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [163, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "World public opinion has reacted strongly to the event .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Officials in the Iraqi Department of Defense said that the two missiles or bomb shells dropped by planes of the multi-national forces on the 13th at 4 O'clock in the morning local time hit a large sized underground bomb shelter and , at least 500 civilians hiding inside were killed , more than half of whom were women and children .", "entity": [{"entity": "Iraqi", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [17, 22]}, {"entity": "Department of Defense", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 44]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [59, 62]}, {"entity": "the 13th at 4 O'clock in the morning local time", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [137, 184]}, {"entity": "500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [243, 246]}, {"entity": "more than half", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [285, 299]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Tunisian government thinks that this bombing again shows that the activity of the multi-national forces has exceeded authorized limits set by the United Nations Security Council decision .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tunisian", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "United Nations Security Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [150, 181]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tunisia has again appealed to international conscience to take action , to stop the blood and end the destructive war , and create conditions for a peaceful settlement of the conflict .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tunisia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ashitaer , the UN representative of Yemen strongly condemned this incident and asked the United Nations Security Council to be responsible for the passed resolution No. 678 which permits military actions against Iraq .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ashitaer", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "UN", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 17]}, {"entity": "Yemen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 41]}, {"entity": "the United Nations Security Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 120]}, {"entity": "resolution No. 678", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [154, 172]}, {"entity": "Iraq", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [212, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said that no one feels this \" ferocious and inexcusable \" bombing is just .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Amman , capital of Jordan , thousands of angry people paraded and demonstrated in front of the US embassy , objecting to the multi-national forces bombing and killing innocent civilians in Baghdad .", "entity": [{"entity": "Amman", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}, {"entity": "Jordan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [31, 40]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [98, 100]}, {"entity": "Baghdad", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [192, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The handover ceremony for China mechanical products purchased by Argentina 's LaRioja Province using a loan provided by the Bank of China , was held today in Catamarca City of this province .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 31]}, {"entity": "Argentina", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 74]}, {"entity": "LaRioja Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 94]}, {"entity": "the Bank of China", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [120, 137]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [149, 154]}, {"entity": "Catamarca City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [158, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Minister of China 's Mechanical Industry Ministry , Xuding Bao , who came specially to attend the handing - over and taking - over ceremony , handed this group of mechanical products whose total value is 5.5 million US dollars , to Masa , the governor of LaRioja Province .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 17]}, {"entity": "Mechanical Industry Ministry", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [21, 49]}, {"entity": ", Xuding Bao ,", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 64]}, {"entity": "5.5 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [204, 226]}, {"entity": "Masa", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [232, 236]}, {"entity": "LaRioja Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [255, 271]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Minister Xuding Bao and Governor Masa delivered ebullient speeches in the ceremony , both hoped to use this as a start to expand trade between the two countries and to promote development in other areas of the two countries .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xuding Bao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [9, 19]}, {"entity": "Masa", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [33, 37]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [147, 150]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [210, 213]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Recently , the Bank of China provided Argentina with loan of 20 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Bank of China", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 28]}, {"entity": "Argentina", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 47]}, {"entity": "20 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [61, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "LaRioja Province is the first to use this loan to import China 's products .", "entity": [{"entity": "LaRioja Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Macau , April 3rd , by reporters Zhigen Wang and Yuming Che", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "April 3rd", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 38]}, {"entity": "Zhigen Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 65]}, {"entity": "Yuming Che", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xuming Zhang , Chairman of the Chinese Enterprise Association in Macau said that , at present there were more than 200 enterprises operating with Chinese capital in Macau and that the total value of assets is more than 90 billion patacas .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xuming Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "the Chinese Enterprise Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 61]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 70]}, {"entity": "more than 200", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [105, 118]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [146, 153]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [165, 170]}, {"entity": "more than 90 billion patacas", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [209, 237]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chinese capital enterprises have become the biggest foreign investors in Macau .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xuming Zhang recently said at the joint meeting for the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Enterprise Association in Macau , that Macau 's inland investment enterprises , from small to large and from weak to strong , have developed into an important force in Macau 's economic domain .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xuming Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "fifth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "the Chinese Enterprise Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [98, 132]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [136, 141]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [149, 154]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [278, 283]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They have made important contributions to the prosperity and stability of Macau .", "entity": [{"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to presentations , these enterprises have extensively taken part in many areas of operating activities such as trade , industry , finance , insurance , tourism , catering , traffic and transportation , construction , real estate , etc. in Macau .", "entity": [{"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [249, 254]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Among these , the proportion that Chinese capital accounts for in financial insurance has reached 50 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [34, 41]}, {"entity": "50 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [98, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Xuming Zhang expressed that enterprises operating with Chinese capital in Macau will continue to take the direction of Xiaoping Deng 's program of \" one country , two systems \" and of all national guidelines and policies for Hong Kong and Macau , to adhere to the principle of \" Some to do and some not to do \" , and to strive together with local figures in industrial and commercial circles to make more contributions to promoting Macau 's economic stability and social development .", "entity": [{"entity": "Xuming Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [55, 62]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 79]}, {"entity": "Xiaoping Deng 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [119, 135]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [149, 152]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [163, 166]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [225, 234]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [239, 244]}, {"entity": "Macau", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [432, 437]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Beijing , January 3rd", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "January 3rd", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In order to perfect the management of international commercial loans , the National Foreign Exchange Bureau decided to implement a new method of managing international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions from January 1st this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the National Foreign Exchange Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [71, 107]}, {"entity": "January 1st this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [224, 245]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to regulations by the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau , international commercial loans indicate loans raised and borrowed by domestic institutions from financial institutions , enterprises , individual or other economic organizations abroad , and from foreign - funded financial institutions within China 's border , whose contractual repayment obligations are in foreign currency .", "entity": [{"entity": "the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 75]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [321, 326]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Export credits , international financing leaseholds , compensation trades with foreign exchange repayment methods , overseas institution 's and individual 's foreign exchange deposits ( excluding foreign exchange deposits in banks approved for offshore operations ) , project financing , financing under trade projects over 90 days and other forms of foreign exchange loans will all be treated and managed as international commercial loans .", "entity": [{"entity": "over 90 days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [319, 331]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to regulations , the People 's Bank of China is the approving authority for international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions , the People 's Bank of China has authorized the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau to be specifically responsible for the approval , supervision and management of commercial loans by domestic institutions .", "entity": [{"entity": "the People 's Bank of China", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [27, 54]}, {"entity": "the People 's Bank of China", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [153, 180]}, {"entity": "the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [196, 243]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All international commercial loans borrowed by domestic institutions should be approved by the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau .", "entity": [{"entity": "the National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [91, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "International business loans that have not been approved but were signed on their own authority will not be valid , the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau will not process the registration of foreign debts , banks are not allowed to open exclusive foreign debt accounts for them , loan principals and interests are not to be remitted out on their own authority .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau clearly stipulated in the new method that , domestic institutions borrowing international commercial loans externally are only limited to : China - capital financial institutions approved by the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau to operate foreign exchange loan business ; juridical people of non-financial corporations approved by the State Department 's Authorization Department .", "entity": [{"entity": "The National Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 47]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [188, 193]}, {"entity": "the Foreign Exchange Management Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [239, 277]}, {"entity": "the State Department 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [381, 404]}, {"entity": "Authorization Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [405, 429]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Juridical people of non-financial institutions who borrow international commercial loans directly must possess these several conditions , that is , have continual profits for the last three years , have import and export business permission , belong to a national encouraged industry ; possess a complete financial management system ; must have a ratio of net assets to total assets not lower than 15 % for juridical people of trade - type non-financial corporations , must have ratios of net assets to total assets not lower than 30 % for juridical people of non trade - type non-financial corporations ; must have a total sum of international business loans borrowed and foreign guarantee surpluses not exceeding 50 % of net asset 's equivalent foreign exchange worth ; must have total of foreign exchange loan and foreign exchange guarantee surplus not exceeding the amount of exchange created in the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last three years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [175, 195]}, {"entity": "not lower than 15 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [383, 402]}, {"entity": "not lower than 30 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [516, 535]}, {"entity": "not exceeding 50 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [701, 719]}, {"entity": "the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [900, 917]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to presentations , the principal features of the industrial production of 1997 are :", "entity": [{"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [84, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Production increased steadily .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The growth rate was somewhat lower than that of last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The nation 's county and above county industries accomplished an annual industrial added value of 2.0476 trillion yuan , calculated by comparable prices , 10.9 % higher than that of last year , somewhat dropping in growth rate .", "entity": [{"entity": "2.0476 trillion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [98, 118]}, {"entity": "10.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [155, 161]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [182, 191]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There were some fluctuations in growth rates of every quarter of the whole year , but the difference was not significant , which can be regarded as a steady operation .", "entity": [{"entity": "the whole year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [65, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The growth rate of State owned industries was basically stable .", "entity": [{"entity": "State", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [19, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Collective industries dropped substantially .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The annual added value of State owned and State owned holding enterprises was 1.1726 trillion yuan , 7.1 % higher than that of last year ; the added value of collective industries was 613.2 billion yuan .", "entity": [{"entity": "State", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [26, 31]}, {"entity": "State", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 47]}, {"entity": "1.1726 trillion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [78, 98]}, {"entity": "7.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [101, 106]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [127, 136]}, {"entity": "613.2 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [184, 202]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Growing 11.7 % , but growth rate declined 6 % from that of last year ; the industrial added value of other economic types was 445 billion , a 13.4 % growth , and a 3 % climb from that of last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "11.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [8, 14]}, {"entity": "6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [42, 45]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 68]}, {"entity": "445 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [126, 137]}, {"entity": "13.4 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [142, 148]}, {"entity": "3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [164, 167]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [187, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Additionally , the annual added value of light industry was 885.5 billion yuan , 11.5 % higher than that of last year ; the added value of heavy industry was 1.1621 trillion yuan , a 10.4 % growth .", "entity": [{"entity": "885.5 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [60, 78]}, {"entity": "11.5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [81, 87]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [108, 117]}, {"entity": "1.1621 trillion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [158, 178]}, {"entity": "10.4 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [183, 189]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- Industry restructuring made vigorous progress .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From the view of main industrial products , the impact of self - generated adjustments due to market constraints was considerably significant .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The production of such fundamental products as energy resources , main raw materials , etc. grew at a low rate subject to the impact of market demands .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The national total production volume of disposable energy resources was 2 % higher than that of last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [72, 75]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [96, 105]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The growth of chemical fiber production , man - made board , synthetic fiber monomer and ten types of non-ferrous metal , etc. was rather fast , with a 14.6 % to 32.3 % growth .", "entity": [{"entity": "ten", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [89, 92]}, {"entity": "14.6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [152, 158]}, {"entity": "32.3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [162, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Timber , machine - made paper , drugs made of chemical materials , etc. dropped 1.1 % to 9.2 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.1 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [80, 85]}, {"entity": "9.2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [89, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Electromechanical products of an investment nature had ups and downs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The production of internal - combustion engines , metal - cutting machines , large , medium and small - sized tractors , vans , motor trucks , etc. dropped 1.6 % to 10.3 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "1.6 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [156, 161]}, {"entity": "10.3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [165, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Electrical and high science and technology products grew considerably .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sedans , digital program - controlled switches , electronic computers , large - scale integrated circuits , etc. grew by 21.9 % to 1.7 times .", "entity": [{"entity": "21.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [121, 127]}, {"entity": "1.7", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [131, 134]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The production of main consumer products grew or dropped significantly subject to the restraints of market demands .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some basic consumer goods and food kept steady growth , among which candy , dairy products , beer , soft drink , cloth , and silk grew by 10 % to 19.2 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "10 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [138, 142]}, {"entity": "19.2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [146, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Main durable consumer goods such as , washing machines , vacuum cleaners , room air - conditioners , color TVs , music centers , etc. grew by 10.7 % to 47.9 % ; bicycles , electric fans , exhaust fans , VCRs dropped by 0.4 % to 16.8 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "10.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [142, 148]}, {"entity": "47.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [152, 158]}, {"entity": "0.4 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [219, 224]}, {"entity": "16.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [228, 234]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- The rate of industrial production and marketing had some growth , whereas exports grew considerably .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "An annual industrial sales output value of 6.8354 trillion yuan was achieved , 10.7 % higher than that of last year , higher than the growth rate of the output of the same period .", "entity": [{"entity": "6.8354 trillion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [43, 63]}, {"entity": "10.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [79, 85]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [106, 115]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The sales rate of industrial products was 96.2 % , 0.3 % higher than that of last year ; the export delivery value of industrial enterprises ' production for foreign trade export purposes was 954.5 billion yuan , 14.8 % higher than that of last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "96.2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [42, 48]}, {"entity": "0.3 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [51, 56]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [77, 86]}, {"entity": "954.5 billion yuan", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [192, 210]}, {"entity": "14.8 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [213, 219]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [240, 249]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "-- The level of economic benefits were recovered back .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From January to November , the composite index of the economic benefits of nationwide 370,000 village and above village industrial enterprises with independent accountability was 89.4 % , 3.4 % higher than that of the same period last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "January to November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 24]}, {"entity": "370,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [86, 93]}, {"entity": "89.4 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [179, 185]}, {"entity": "3.4 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [188, 193]}, {"entity": "the same period last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [214, 239]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The analysis of the State Statistical Bureau shows , last year , there were still certain problems during the industrial economy operation , for instance , capital defaults increased , deficits were still serious , fundamental products such as energy resources , raw materials , etc. grew at low rates , the transfer of industrial structure was considerably slow , and all these are restraining factors assailing the further healthy development of an industrial economy .", "entity": [{"entity": "the State Statistical Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [16, 44]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This year , the spirit of National Economy Work Conference should be carried through and implemented , while deepening State - owned enterprise reform and continuing to reinforce restructuring , striving to increase effective demands , improving supply quality , promoting the healthy and steady development of an industrial economy .", "entity": [{"entity": "This year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "National Economy Work Conference", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [26, 58]}, {"entity": "State", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [119, 124]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Xinhua News Agency , Jinan , January 18th , by reporter Xueqing Dong", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "Jinan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 26]}, {"entity": "January 18th", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [29, 41]}, {"entity": "Xueqing Dong", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [56, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mingquan Zhang , vice director of Shandong Province 's Foreign Economy and Trade Committee , said that in 1997 , the quality and level of Shandong 's utilizing foreign capital had further improved .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mingquan Zhang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Shandong Province 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [34, 54]}, {"entity": "Foreign Economy and Trade Committee", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 90]}, {"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [106, 110]}, {"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [138, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Last year , although there was a drop in the quantity and the contract amount of recently approved projects utilizing foreign capital in Shandong Province , foreign capital actually utilized maintained growth , reaching over 4.2 billion US dollars , and increasing more than 17 % compared with the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Shandong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [137, 154]}, {"entity": "over 4.2 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [220, 247]}, {"entity": "more than 17 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [265, 279]}, {"entity": "the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [294, 311]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of this amount , foreign merchants ' investment actually realized was over 3 billion US dollars , increasing 9 % compared with the same period the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "over 3 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [70, 95]}, {"entity": "9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [109, 112]}, {"entity": "the same period the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [127, 160]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the whole year , the enterprises that were newly approved and that were invested in by foreign merchants neared 1,600 , and the accumulated total already has reached over 20,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "the whole year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 17]}, {"entity": "1,600", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [115, 120]}, {"entity": "over 20,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [169, 180]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The momentum of multinational companies investing in Shandong has not decreased .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After such multi-national companies as Dupont , HP , Siemens , Panasonic , Daewoo , etc. successively invested in Shandong , ten multinational companies such as America 's Chevron and Eton , France 's Elf , Shenggeban and the French Electric Company , Germany 's Deutsch , UK 's Imperial Chemicals , etc. have come to invest in Shandong for the first time .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dupont", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 45]}, {"entity": "HP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [48, 50]}, {"entity": "Siemens", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 60]}, {"entity": "Panasonic", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 72]}, {"entity": "Daewoo", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [75, 81]}, {"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 122]}, {"entity": "ten", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [125, 128]}, {"entity": "America", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [161, 168]}, {"entity": "Chevron", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [172, 179]}, {"entity": "Eton", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [184, 188]}, {"entity": "France", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [191, 197]}, {"entity": "Elf", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [201, 204]}, {"entity": "Shenggeban", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [207, 217]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [226, 232]}, {"entity": "Electric Company", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [233, 249]}, {"entity": "Germany", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [252, 259]}, {"entity": "Deutsch", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [263, 270]}, {"entity": "UK", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [273, 275]}, {"entity": "Imperial Chemicals", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [279, 297]}, {"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [328, 336]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [345, 350]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "New breakthroughs were achieved in Shandong 's methods of utilizing foreign capital .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shandong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In agriculture , the integrated agricultural development project invested in by Australia 's Southern Australia -- Shandong Stock - holding Company , Ltd. in the Yellow River delta region has a total investment of nearly 30 million US dollars and over 10 million US dollars of contracted foreign capital .", "entity": [{"entity": "Australia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 89]}, {"entity": "Southern Australia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 111]}, {"entity": "Shandong Stock - holding Company , Ltd.", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [115, 154]}, {"entity": "Yellow River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [162, 174]}, {"entity": "nearly 30 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [214, 242]}, {"entity": "over 10 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [247, 273]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The economic development district has become a hotspot for attracting foreign merchant investment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The total industrial output completed by enterprises within the district for the year was over 47 billion US dollars , increasing by nearly 80 % compared with the previous year , and had nearly 1.7 billion US dollars of foreign export currency , increasing by 31 % compared with the same period the previous year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [77, 85]}, {"entity": "over 47 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [90, 116]}, {"entity": "nearly 80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [133, 144]}, {"entity": "the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [159, 176]}, {"entity": "nearly 1.7 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [187, 216]}, {"entity": "31 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [260, 264]}, {"entity": "the same period the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [279, 312]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Export values ranked fourth in the nation , and the growth rate ranked second among China 's main coastal provinces and cities .", "entity": [{"entity": "fourth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [21, 27]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [71, 77]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [84, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the invitation of Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia , Premier Peng Li arrived in Malaysia on the afternoon of December 10th , 1990 to carry out a friendly official visit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mahathir", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [36, 44]}, {"entity": "Malaysia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 56]}, {"entity": "Peng Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [67, 74]}, {"entity": "Malaysia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [86, 94]}, {"entity": "the afternoon of December 10th , 1990", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [98, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The picture showed Premier Peng Li visiting Malacca State", "entity": [{"entity": "Peng Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 34]}, {"entity": "Malacca State", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Picture taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shengnan Li", "entity": [{"entity": "Xinhua News Agency", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 35]}, {"entity": "Shengnan Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [45, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1997 , Mexico 's total amount of foreign trade broke through 220 billion US dollars , which created a new historical record .", "entity": [{"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 16]}, {"entity": "220 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [64, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , in reviewing Mexico 's foreign trade situation this year , it might be appropriate to say that it is between joy and sorrow .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 29]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [57, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The joy lies in that the total amount of foreign trade still maintains a strong growth momentum , and has realized trade surpluses for the third year in a row , whereas the sorrow is that the amount of trade surplus has sharply reversed , and this year , a relatively large deficit may appear .", "entity": [{"entity": "the third year in a row", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [135, 158]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [243, 252]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to official journals published recently by Mexico 's Treasury Department , Mexico 's foreign trade in 1997 continued to grow rapidly , the total amount of imports and exports reached 220.178 billion US dollars , 18.85 % higher than that of the previous year , and within that the amount of exports was 110.380 billion US dollars , the amount of imports was 109.798 billion US dollars , 15 % and 22.7 % higher than 1996 , respectively .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 59]}, {"entity": "Treasury Department", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 82]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [85, 91]}, {"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [112, 116]}, {"entity": "220.178 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [193, 219]}, {"entity": "18.85 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [222, 229]}, {"entity": "the previous year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [250, 267]}, {"entity": "110.380 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [312, 338]}, {"entity": "109.798 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [367, 393]}, {"entity": "15 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [396, 400]}, {"entity": "22.7 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [405, 411]}, {"entity": "1996", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [424, 428]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The trade surplus was 582 million US dollars .", "entity": [{"entity": "582 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [22, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Foreign trade occupies a pivotal position in Mexico 's economy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "After the outbreak of Mexico 's financial crisis in 1994 , Mexico 's currency , the peso was greatly devalued , thus greatly strengthening Mexico 's export competitiveness .", "entity": [{"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 28]}, {"entity": "1994", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 65]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the last several years , the government has been vigorously supporting exports , and exports grew rapidly .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last several years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "However , in the past three years , Mexico 's foreign trade surplus showed a substantial degradation : 7.889 billion US dollars in 1995 , 6.424 billion US dollars in 1996 , and only 582 million US dollars last year .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past three years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [13, 33]}, {"entity": "Mexico", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 42]}, {"entity": "7.889 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [103, 127]}, {"entity": "1995", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [131, 135]}, {"entity": "6.424 billion US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [138, 162]}, {"entity": "1996", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [166, 170]}, {"entity": "only 582 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [177, 204]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [205, 214]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Especially deserving to be pointed out is that , after the first monthly deficit in July last year , the rest of the year saw successive monthly deficits with the amounts of deficit almost doubling , roaring from 20 million US dollars in July to 722 million US dollars in December , reducing the 1997 annual accumulative trade surplus amount to a trivial number .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [59, 64]}, {"entity": "July last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [84, 98]}, {"entity": "the rest of the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [101, 121]}, {"entity": "20 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [213, 234]}, {"entity": "July", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [238, 242]}, {"entity": "722 million US dollars", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [246, 268]}, {"entity": "December", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [272, 280]}, {"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [296, 300]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Local economic analysts felt that the trade deficit in the second half of last year was mainly due to an overly high import growth rate , which is even higher than that of exports .", "entity": [{"entity": "the second half of last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [55, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Among import sectors , swift growth comes mainly from imports of consumer products and capital goods , 39.9 % and 38.2 % higher than that of 1996 respectively .", "entity": [{"entity": "39.9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [103, 109]}, {"entity": "38.2 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [114, 120]}, {"entity": "1996", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [141, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Secondly , the overly high valuation of the peso is also an indispensable factor .", "entity": [{"entity": "Secondly", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "An overly high peso exchange rate stimulated imports , but hindered exports .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The huge trade deficit was one of the internal reasons that triggered this crisis .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , the trade situation last year has caused extreme concern among people from economic circles , who even predicted that in 1998 , foreign trade deficit would revive .", "entity": [{"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 37]}, {"entity": "1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [129, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They pointed out that , this year , except for an overly high peso exchange rate , exports would also face some new unfavorable factors .", "entity": [{"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [24, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Turning to the Constitution on the \" One China \" Issue", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [37, 40]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Still wrestling with the vexed issue of \" one China , \" the President 's Advisory Group on Cross-Strait Relations met for its sixth and seventh sessions during November , amid frenzied media attention .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [42, 45]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "the President 's Advisory Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [56, 87]}, {"entity": "Cross-Strait", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [91, 103]}, {"entity": "sixth", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [126, 131]}, {"entity": "seventh", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [136, 143]}, {"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [160, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "How president Chen Shui - bian responds to this proposal will determine whether or not the \" one China \" stalemate can be broken , and if there is to be a set timetable for implementing the three direct links .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen Shui - bian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 30]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [93, 96]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [97, 102]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [190, 195]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "After assuming the presidency , Chen Shui - bian recruited a number of leading politicians , industrialists , academics and other personages for a non-partisan advisory group , intended to build cross-party consensus on the subject of relations with the mainland .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen Shui - bian", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [32, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Since then the Group has held a series of intensive discussions on Taiwan 's fundamental position regarding the cross-strait relationship .", "entity": [{"entity": "Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 20]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Group entered the final phase of discussions on the \" one China \" issue during November , but differences between pro-unification and pro-independence participants continued to stymie the effort to produce a statement acceptable to all .", "entity": [{"entity": "Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [58, 61]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 67]}, {"entity": "November", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [83, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As DPP legislator Shen Fu - hsiung pointed out , the Group had to draft something \" palatable both to the pro-unification and pro-independence camps ; something which the DPP ca n't shun and yet which does n't make Beijing wince . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [3, 6]}, {"entity": "Shen Fu - hsiung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 34]}, {"entity": "Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 58]}, {"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [171, 174]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [215, 222]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "On the evening of November 18 Advisory Group chairman Lee Yuan - tseh , meeting over dinner with DPP faction leaders , described the cross-strait situation as extremely precarious , and said that since time is not on Taiwan 's side we need to step up efforts to resume dialogue with the mainland .", "entity": [{"entity": "the evening of November 18", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [3, 29]}, {"entity": "Advisory Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 44]}, {"entity": "Lee Yuan - tseh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 69]}, {"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [97, 100]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [217, 223]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Separately , during his report to the Legislative Yuan on the Academia Sinica 's budget , Lee reiterated : \" If the whole population could arrive at a consensus on ' one China , ' then President Chen would have no grounds for not accepting that consensus . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "the Legislative Yuan", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [34, 54]}, {"entity": "the Academia Sinica 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [58, 80]}, {"entity": "Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [90, 93]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [166, 169]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [170, 175]}, {"entity": "Chen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [195, 199]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Lee Yuan - tseh 's appeal made little impression on the governing DPP , however .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lee Yuan - tseh 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 18]}, {"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [66, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , DPP chairman Frank Hsieh himself came under fire within the party after stating : \" The constitution of the ROC is itself a one China framework .", "entity": [{"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [14, 17]}, {"entity": "Frank Hsieh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 38]}, {"entity": "ROC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 125]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [138, 141]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [142, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since the DPP has participated in the process of constitutional amendment it ought to accept this constitution , and as the party of government we ca n't afford to override or reject it . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [10, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Also , Lin disagrees with Lee Yuan - tseh 's assertion that \" time is not on our side , \" and instead feels that things are no worse than before .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 10]}, {"entity": "Lee Yuan - tseh 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "On November 24 the New Party , which had already pulled out of the Advisory Group , published an article in the press signed by leading members such as Yu Mu - ming and Chen Kui - miao , in which they called on the government to take the constitution as its starting point for breaking the \" one China \" deadlock .", "entity": [{"entity": "November 24", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 14]}, {"entity": "the New Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [15, 28]}, {"entity": "the Advisory Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 81]}, {"entity": "Yu Mu - ming", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [152, 164]}, {"entity": "Chen Kui - miao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [169, 184]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [292, 295]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [296, 301]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They pointed out that Chen and the DPP had competed in elections in accordance with the constitution , winning the presidency and a share of seats in the legislature and the National Assembly , and had also participated in the process of revising the constitution .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 26]}, {"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [35, 38]}, {"entity": "the National Assembly", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [170, 191]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As the politicians argued , Formosa Plastics boss Wang Yung - ching convened a meeting with other captains of industry to come up with some advice for the government on economic policy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Formosa Plastics", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 44]}, {"entity": "Wang Yung - ching", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Wang also agreed with Lee 's notion that time is running out for Taiwan , in the belief that Taiwan will only have time on its side once it starts to carry out well - intentioned engagement with the mainland .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 25]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 71]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Consensus on the \" one China question \" is an urgent priority for both sides if there is to be a peaceful future .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [19, 22]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wang Yung - ching 's demand for a review of the government 's \" go slow \" policy , and opening of the three direct links , brought a personal phone call from the president , who invited him to come and discuss policy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wang Yung - ching 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [102, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On November 25 Wang and a handful of other leading industrialists went to call on the president at his official residence .", "entity": [{"entity": "November 25", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 14]}, {"entity": "Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The businessmen said that shelving the \" one China \" issue was not the right thing for the government to do , and that Taiwan could no longer afford to play word games .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [41, 44]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 50]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [119, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They stressed the need for early restoration of the mechanism for cross-strait economic dialogue , and said that the government should also think about moving towards political dialogue .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Presidential Advisory Group met again on November 26 , and discussed a proposal , made earlier by Public Television System chairman Wu Feng - shan and already favored by most members of the Group , for \" one China \" to be addressed through \" three acknowledgements and four suggestions . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "The Presidential Advisory Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 31]}, {"entity": "November 26", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [45, 56]}, {"entity": "Public Television System", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [102, 126]}, {"entity": "Wu Feng - shan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [136, 150]}, {"entity": "Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [194, 199]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [208, 211]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [212, 217]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [246, 251]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [273, 277]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A firm consensus was finally arrived at , and the Group submitted to the president its proposal that Taiwan should \" respond to the mainland 's ' one China ' proposition in accordance with the constitution of the ROC . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 55]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 107]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [146, 149]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 155]}, {"entity": "ROC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [213, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The government and opposition parties continued to disagree regarding this consensus .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "DPP legislator Lin Cho - shui described it as \" acceptable , if not very satisfactory . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Lin Cho - shui", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "New Party convenor Hau Lung - pin said the statement was too ambiguous , tending towards \" one China , with each side free to make its own interpretation , \" and added that it was highly unlikely to be used by the president as a guide for cross-strait policy .", "entity": [{"entity": "New Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Hau Lung - pin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [19, 33]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [91, 94]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ting Shou - chung , deputy executive director of the KMT policy committee , said this so - called consensus was simply a case of going round and round on the spot , and would do nothing to solve the core problem .", "entity": [{"entity": "Ting Shou - chung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "KMT", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In a November 28 press release , the Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ) , the government body in charge of cross-strait affairs , diplomatically stated that it would observe and implement the suggestions of the Advisory Group if and when they become official government policy .", "entity": [{"entity": "November 28", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 16]}, {"entity": "the Mainland Affairs Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 61]}, {"entity": "MAC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 67]}, {"entity": "the Advisory Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [205, 223]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Speaking on the topic of the three direct links , MAC chairwoman Tsai Ing - wen said that these will be phased in according to conditions , with the first phase being the opening of direct business links as necessitated by the admission of both sides to the WTO .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [29, 34]}, {"entity": "MAC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 53]}, {"entity": "Tsai Ing - wen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [65, 79]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [149, 154]}, {"entity": "WTO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [258, 261]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And according to economics minister Lin Hsin - yi , the government recognizes that the \" go slow \" policy needs to be relaxed , and will give a more thorough accounting of this before the end of the year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lin Hsin - yi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [36, 49]}, {"entity": "the end of the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [184, 203]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tanshui : An Inspiration to Poets , Artists , and Romantics", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Lin I - hsien / photos by Diago Chiu / tr. by Phil Newell )", "entity": [{"entity": "Lin I - hsien", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 15]}, {"entity": "Diago Chiu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [28, 38]}, {"entity": "Phil Newell", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [48, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In paintings , a white cloud layer swirls over Mt. Kuanyin ;", "entity": [{"entity": "Mt. Kuanyin", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [47, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "waves on the river drift like a breeze ;", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "a red sun dances on golden water ;", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "a yellow moon sings from a deep purple sky . . . .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Tanshui of illustrations is a place of unblemished beauty , a myth that remains unshakeable .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the 300 - plus years since its founding , this port town - formerly called Huwei , now Tanshui Township - has seen days of prosperity and has also been through a baptism of fire .", "entity": [{"entity": "the 300 - plus years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 23]}, {"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 83]}, {"entity": "Tanshui Township", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 106]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What makes it special among the 309 urban and rural townships of Taiwan ?", "entity": [{"entity": "309", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [32, 35]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [65, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How do the people of Tanshui live today ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [21, 28]}, {"entity": "today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [34, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How do they recall the past ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And how do they see the future ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" You want to know how Tanshui has changed ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I would say that the biggest change is that the old streets are gone . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So declares Tu Hsiu - yuan , proprietor of the Hui Yuan Pharmacy , and also director of the Huwei Cultural and Historical Workshop .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tu Hsiu - yuan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 26]}, {"entity": "the Hui Yuan Pharmacy", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [43, 64]}, {"entity": "the Huwei Cultural and Historical Workshop", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [88, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "His pharmacy is located on what is now called Chungcheng Road , one of the oldest streets , which Tanshui natives still call Huwei Street .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chungcheng Road", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [46, 61]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [98, 105]}, {"entity": "Huwei Street", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [125, 137]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tu , who has lived his whole life in the old neighborhood , has watched from his doorstep as old shops have refurbished themselves in modern style , and modern shops have adopted the look of the old .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For the convenience of cars , the streets have been widened repeatedly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1988 , the last train on the old Tanshui Line of the railroad chugged into history , taking that old slower pace of life with it .", "entity": [{"entity": "1988", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Tanshui Line", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [36, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1997 the Tanshui Line of the mass rapid transit system opened , bringing floods of visitors to the town .", "entity": [{"entity": "1997", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "the Tanshui Line", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [8, 24]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yet , while these tourists bring a human touch to the streets on weekends and holidays , on ordinary weekdays the silence is accompanied only by leftover garbage , empty shops , and those Huwei people who refuse to leave their old homes .", "entity": [{"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [188, 193]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The golden age of Huwei", "entity": [{"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are different explanations as to the origins of the word Huwei , the original name for Tanshui .", "entity": [{"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 68]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [93, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some say it was a transliteration of the place name used by the indigenous people .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But others say it comes from a long - gone fishing practice , using a shi hu ( \" stone pool \" ) .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Early fishermen used stones to carve a long , narrow catchment ( the so - called \" pool \" ) in the sand , waiting for the tide to carry in fish which they could then easily scoop up .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since the place now known as Tanshui was at the tail end ( wei ) of this stone pool , it came to be called Huwei .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 36]}, {"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [107, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tanshui occupied an important place in the transport network connecting Taiwan to Southeast Asia .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 78]}, {"entity": "Southeast Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [82, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even before the arrival of Westerners in Taiwan , Han Chinese often crossed over from China to Tanshui , which is relatively close to the mainland .", "entity": [{"entity": "Westerners", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 37]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 47]}, {"entity": "Han Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [50, 61]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [86, 91]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here they engaged in barter trade with the Pingpu ( meaning \" plains \" ) aborigines , with deer skins and sulphur being the most coveted products .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pingpu", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As Western powers turned their eyes to Asia , Tanshui became strategically important .", "entity": [{"entity": "Western", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [3, 10]}, {"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [39, 43]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the 17th century , first the Spanish , and then the Dutch , built forts here as symbols of their claims to territorial control .", "entity": [{"entity": "the 17th century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 19]}, {"entity": "Spanish", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [32, 39]}, {"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [55, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the mid-17th century , China took control of Taiwan , and closed Tanshui to international trade .", "entity": [{"entity": "the mid-17th century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 23]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 31]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 54]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [68, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Later , as a result of the Sino - French war of 1884 , Tanshui was again opened up to Western access .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sino - French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [27, 40]}, {"entity": "1884", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 52]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 62]}, {"entity": "Western", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [86, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "During Tanshui 's golden age , large and small boats were constantly coming and going in the harbor , and it was not unusual to see enormous steamships .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the latter part of the Qing dynasty , Tanshui was the largest port in Taiwan , and was the \" customs headquarters , \" also charged with overseeing port activities at Keelung , Tainan , and Kaohsiung .", "entity": [{"entity": "the latter part of the Qing dynasty", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 38]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 48]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 79]}, {"entity": "Keelung", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [169, 176]}, {"entity": "Tainan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [179, 185]}, {"entity": "Kaohsiung", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [192, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , during the Japanese occupation , as a result of silting , and because the Japanese invested a huge effort in developing the port at Keelung , Tanshui faded in importance , never again to see the likes of its glory days .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 29]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [84, 92]}, {"entity": "Keelung", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [142, 149]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [152, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tanshui is a place of many historic sites , a place that invites reflection on things past .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the \" foreign district , \" a missionary named George Mackay established the first hospital for Western medicine in Taiwan ; it was here that in 1878 the first case of paragonimiasis in the world was diagnosed .", "entity": [{"entity": "George Mackay", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 62]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [79, 84]}, {"entity": "Western", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [98, 105]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [118, 124]}, {"entity": "1878", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [147, 151]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [156, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The old church next to the hospital is a mecca for Tanshui painters .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The schools , homes , and consulates in the foreign district - some long gone , some still standing - testify to the fact that this was a place of intensive interaction between Chinese and Western cultures .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [177, 184]}, {"entity": "Western", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [189, 196]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you go up Sanmin Street , you will discover the head of an old and disused water pipe .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sanmin Street", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [13, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This could be a relic left behind by one of the major Japanese infrastructure projects , the first tap water station .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [54, 62]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [93, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or you could walk instead next to the MRT station and see another first for Taiwan : the first seaplane landing area , also built in the Japanese occupation era .", "entity": [{"entity": "the MRT station", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [34, 49]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [66, 71]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [76, 82]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [89, 94]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [137, 145]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or you could visit the venerable Tamkang Secondary School .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tamkang Secondary School", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [33, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As you watch the children laughing and arguing and playing , you can think back to the time when the Japanese government did not allow Taiwanese and Japanese to attend school together .", "entity": [{"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [101, 109]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [135, 144]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [149, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Under those circumstances , Tamkang Middle School became a cradle for the training of Taiwanese elites .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tamkang Middle School", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 49]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [86, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Gradually you will discover that Tanshui is a bookish place .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This little town has everything from nursery schools to graduate schools .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "During the reign of the Guangxu emperor of the Qing dynasty ( which began in 1875 ) , and prior to the beginning of the Japanese occupation in 1895 , Tanshui produced two successful candidates in the highest level military exam , one in the highest level civil exam , and countless successes in lower - level imperial exams .", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangxu", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 31]}, {"entity": "the Qing dynasty", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [43, 59]}, {"entity": "1875", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [77, 81]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [120, 128]}, {"entity": "1895", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [143, 147]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [150, 157]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [167, 170]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [230, 233]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even in modern times , the town has not passed up chances to embrace knowledge : When the idea of founding Tam - kang University in Tanshui was going to be abandoned because of a lack of land and money , local residents offered cheap land , donated money , and lobbied so that the university could set its roots in town .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tam - kang University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [107, 128]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These historic sites are near the river , but do n't spend all your time there .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't forget the Tatun Mountains , which shelter the town .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Tatun Mountains", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [14, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the old days , Tanshui folk who cultivated farms on the slopes had to walk for an hour to get to their crops .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [18, 25]}, {"entity": "an hour", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [82, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These days you can take a local mini-bus .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the mountains you will see the occasional terraced field grown over with weeds .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This land , which has gone from grass to grain and back to grass again , is where many an old Tanshui native played when they were children .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [94, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Tanshui mystique", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The mountains are also filled with old stories .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The often - renovated Hsing Chung Tang shop is more than a century old .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hsing Chung Tang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [22, 38]}, {"entity": "more than a century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [47, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Owner Li Yung - kun is a descendant of the eminent Li family of Tanshui , which produced three juren ( a successful candidate in provincial - level exams , held every three years ) .", "entity": [{"entity": "Li Yung - kun", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [6, 19]}, {"entity": "Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [51, 53]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [64, 71]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [89, 94]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [167, 172]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The house testifies to this past : It has a swallow - tailed roof and a flagpole , features that only the home of a juren was entitled to have .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Like his elders , Li Mingbin bridges the gap across the Taiwan Strait , as he is capable of conversing fluently in either Beijing dialect or the southern Fujian dialect used in Taiwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Li Mingbin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [18, 28]}, {"entity": "the Taiwan Strait", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [52, 69]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 129]}, {"entity": "Fujian", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [154, 160]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [177, 183]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of course , stories do n't have to be old to be interesting .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today 's Tanshui residents are living their own stories .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The crotchety but modest guy who delivers the newspapers , the seafood restaurant owner who has made his fortune from scratch , the old man at the roadside food stall , the hostess in the tea house greeting and sending off guests . . . .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some are active in the early morning , some late at night .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Though the founders of many of these shops have passed away , the second generation has taken the baton .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [66, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the old bamboo tea shop , the now elderly hostess still plays her role amidst the ambience of wine and tea , offering a feminine presence to help put at ease her customers who come looking for a little relaxation , evoking the bewitching atmosphere of Tanshui at night .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [255, 262]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Businessmen from outside , smelling profits , have set up gaudy storefronts and neon signs , hoping to trade on Tanshui 's mystique to sell coffee , seafood , antiques , and snack foods .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Students , who have enough money to keep several streets of shops going , carelessly wheel their motorcycles through the narrow streets , their minds elsewhere , thinking of youthful fun or romance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Happy couples and jilted lovers line the river , displaying their joy or sadness in their postures : two people 's shadows are melted together by the darkened river behind , while others stand alone on the riverbank like statues .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The weeping river", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Have you heard of the weeping junks ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "During the Sino - French war , Taiwan governor Liu Mingchuan , attempting to obstruct a French landing , scuttled several of these boats .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Sino - French war", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [7, 28]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 37]}, {"entity": "Liu Mingchuan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 60]}, {"entity": "French", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [88, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is said that , late at night , the sunken junks make moaning sounds .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But I think that it may be the river itself that is moaning .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1998 , the government produced a plan for a riverside expressway to Tanshui .", "entity": [{"entity": "1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [71, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The road , which was expected to have three levels , would have cut through rare mangroves and created a barrier between the river and the town of Tanshui .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [38, 43]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [147, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If the plan had been implemented , people who wanted to go to Tanshui and gaze out over the river would have had to find some very high vantage point in town to do so !", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [62, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fortunately , thanks to efforts by cultural and environmental activists from Tanshui , the plan was first postponed , and then was ultimately killed after an environmental impact assessment released in September refused to approve the scheme .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 84]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [100, 105]}, {"entity": "September", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [202, 211]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But a question remains : Is something like this bound to come sooner or later ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" For the purposes of development , the Tanshui coast has been constantly exploited .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [40, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But what will be result of this incessant struggle against nature ? \" says an agitated Tu Hsiu - yuan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tu Hsiu - yuan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [87, 101]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And Hsieh Teh - hsi of the Tamsui Culture Foundation adds : \" High - rises are going up one after another in Tanshui New Town [ a huge government - planned development ] , but many of the apartments remain empty .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hsieh Teh - hsi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 19]}, {"entity": "the Tamsui Culture Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [23, 52]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [88, 91]}, {"entity": "Tanshui New Town", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everybody here knows that when the northeast winds blow in during the winter , that is the coldest place around .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "No wonder those apartments are not selling ! \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tu says , with disbelief and exasperation in his voice : \" Do you know that they are going to build a huge bridge between Tanshui and Pali ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Tu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 2]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [122, 129]}, {"entity": "Pali", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [134, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's such a beautiful and historic location , but they are just going to stick up a bridge there , and they are even talking about having a rotating restaurant on top ! \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lovers of Tanshui , while keeping close watch over her , are fearful that the giant beast of development may eventually come and bulldoze Tanshui away one piece of land at a time .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [10, 17]}, {"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [138, 145]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [151, 154]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They fear that their children , like they themselves , will have to search through photographs and memories to find Tanshui 's traditional simplicity and the joys of being close to nature .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [116, 123]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When the old buildings are gone , and people lose contact with the great outdoors , will Tanshui even be worthy of its reputation anymore ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [89, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Scattered wooden fishing boats bob in the river .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I have n't met any of the fishermen who these days go out and catch only small fry .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They might relate how in the old days they could just put a hand in the river and come up with a big catch .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The lonely fishing boats are waiting for the Tanshui - Pali ferry to pass by and say hello .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 52]}, {"entity": "Pali", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Those lanterns moving through the river are actually the ferry , while those stars flashing in the distance are beams of light that come from the lighthouse every five seconds .", "entity": [{"entity": "five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [163, 167]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is only now that I realize that , even in the drabbest weather , Tanshui is still beautiful .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [68, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Taiwan 's Townships", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When you look at a map , what do the 309 townships of Taiwan mean to you ?", "entity": [{"entity": "309", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [37, 40]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [54, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do you draw a complete blank on all of them ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or do some of the names evoke beautiful memories ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What do these townships have to offer visitors ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What interesting or famous characters have they given birth to ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this age of the global village , how much do you know about the village next door ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Sinorama wants to take you on a journey through Taiwan 's 309 townships large and small : As they follow their individual rhythms , what is it that enables them to create their own music , and what can we hear in the songs they sing ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Sinorama", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 54]}, {"entity": "309", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [58, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tanshui Facts and Figures", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tanshui Township ( also spelled Tamsui ) is part of Taipei County .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui Township", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "Tamsui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 38]}, {"entity": "Taipei County", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It abuts Sanchih Rural Township to the northeast , the Kuantu area of Taipei City to the southeast , and the Taiwan Strait to the northwest ; to the southwest it faces Pali Rural Township over the Tanshui River .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sanchih Rural Township", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 31]}, {"entity": "Kuantu", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [55, 61]}, {"entity": "Taipei City", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [70, 81]}, {"entity": "the Taiwan Strait", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [105, 122]}, {"entity": "Pali Rural Township", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [168, 187]}, {"entity": "the Tanshui River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [193, 210]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It covers an area of just over 70 square kilometers , and has a population of 115,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "over 70 square kilometers", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [26, 51]}, {"entity": "115,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [78, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is the largest paddy - rice producing area in Taipei County .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taipei County", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [49, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In days gone by , because the Kuroshio current passes close by , the waters offshore were rich fishing grounds .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuroshio", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [30, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , in recent years , pollution from the Tanshui River and exhaustion of fish stocks have caused the catch to dwindle .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [13, 25]}, {"entity": "the Tanshui River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [43, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Among the more famous tourist sites are Fort San Domingo , Yin Shan Temple , the Lixuetang school ( known in English as Oxford College , founded in 1882 to train missionaries ) , Huwei cannon emplacement , the mangrove conservation area , Shalun beach recreation area , the historic buildings of the Mackay Hospital and Tamkang Middle School , \" Antiques Street \" ( Chungcheng Road ) , and the ferry pier .", "entity": [{"entity": "Fort San Domingo", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [40, 56]}, {"entity": "Yin Shan Temple", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [59, 74]}, {"entity": "the Lixuetang school", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [77, 97]}, {"entity": "English", "entity_type": "language", "pos": [109, 116]}, {"entity": "Oxford College", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [120, 134]}, {"entity": "1882", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [148, 152]}, {"entity": "Huwei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [179, 184]}, {"entity": "Shalun", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [239, 245]}, {"entity": "the Mackay Hospital", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [296, 315]}, {"entity": "Tamkang Middle School", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [320, 341]}, {"entity": "Antiques Street", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [346, 361]}, {"entity": "Chungcheng Road", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [366, 381]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Public transportation includes inter-city bus service , the Tanshui Line of the Taipei mass rapid transit system , and local buses .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Tanshui Line", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [56, 72]}, {"entity": "Taipei", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For more detailed information visit http://www.tamsui.gov.tw/ .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "High - rises are thought by many to represent development , but in Tanshui they are ruining the skyline and the historic ambience of the town .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "An old Tanshui resident sits with legs crossed reading the paper , as the passage of time , marked on the calendar on the wall , adds a gloss to the antiques .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "p. 096", "entity": [{"entity": "096", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( facing page )", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These lovers may be gazing at Tanshui with their eyes , but their hearts have eyes only for one another .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tranquil and romantic Tanshui is a great place for wedding photos .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tanshui", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [22, 29]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "As the lazy sun displays an extraordinary beauty , a fishing boat drifts toward shore over the golden water .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dongguan Gets Down to Business Taiwan Firms Embrace a Cantonese Boomtown", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 37]}, {"entity": "Cantonese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [54, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From Hong Kong 's airport , you can go straight to Dongguan on a Global Express bus .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hong Kong 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 17]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 59]}, {"entity": "Global Express", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With 27 departures a day , these buses run by a Taiwan firm out of Dongguan take Taiwan expats to their adopted home , which boasts the largest concentration of Taiwan firms in the PRC .", "entity": [{"entity": "27", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [5, 7]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 54]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 75]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 87]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [161, 167]}, {"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [181, 184]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Invoking the Taiwanese business battle cry of \" victory to those who strive the hardest , \" 20,000 - 30,000 Taiwan expats in Dongguan have in little more than a decade turned a county of banana and lichee plantations into a big city with exports behind only Shenzhen 's and Shanghai 's .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [13, 22]}, {"entity": "20,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [92, 98]}, {"entity": "30,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 107]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 114]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [125, 133]}, {"entity": "Shenzhen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [258, 266]}, {"entity": "Shanghai", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [274, 282]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How has Dongguan , this rising economic star , done it ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [8, 16]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What mix of sad and happy tales about Taiwan firms does this city have to tell ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's 10:00 at night , but the city of Dongguan in Guangdong Province is still hopping .", "entity": [{"entity": "10:00 at night", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [6, 20]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 47]}, {"entity": "Guangdong Province", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [51, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Cars clocking 80 kilometers an hour zip along roads that reveal hardly a trace of the farming villages that they linked not long ago .", "entity": [{"entity": "80 kilometers an hour", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [14, 35]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Taiwanese business people here run their factories like they drive their cars , in high gear .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The factories are lit up at night for overtime shifts .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" We do n't take much of a break for the Chinese New Year 's holidays , \" says Andrew Yeh , chairman of Dongguan 's Powin Electric , which makes cable for the telecoms industry .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese New Year 's", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [41, 60]}, {"entity": "Andrew Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [79, 89]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [104, 112]}, {"entity": "Powin Electric", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [116, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" By the morning of the third day we start up again with three shifts , just like any other day .", "entity": [{"entity": "the morning of the third day", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 33]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [57, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "We ca n't keep up with our orders and have got to squeeze five days of work into every 24 hours . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "five days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [58, 67]}, {"entity": "every 24 hours", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [81, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the busy Fucheng district , you find the Taiwanese bars , covered from door to rooftop with flashing lights", "entity": [{"entity": "Fucheng", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [12, 19]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [44, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "When compared to Shenzhen , moreover , land and labor in Dongguan are cheap .", "entity": [{"entity": "Shenzhen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 25]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The local cadres have been smart , providing all manner of land and tax incentives , \" says Chen Ming - chih , TBAD 's secretary general .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen Ming - chih", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 110]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [113, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "\" The factory rent was set at RMB 8.00 ( about NT$ 32 ) a square meter .", "entity": [{"entity": "RMB 8.00", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [30, 38]}, {"entity": "32", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [51, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The electricity charge was RMB .87 a kilowatt hour , and there were various tax incentives , \" explains Wang Jung - tuo , who notes there is still room for negotiation .", "entity": [{"entity": "RMB .87", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [27, 34]}, {"entity": "Wang Jung - tuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [104, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In 1990 , Wang went to Malaysia thinking about opening a factory there , but he discovered that Malaysia 's market was much smaller than the mainland 's and its labor costs twice as high .", "entity": [{"entity": "1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Wang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 14]}, {"entity": "Malaysia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 31]}, {"entity": "Malaysia", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [96, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "He acknowledges that it was a risky move to come to mainland China , but \" if you 're going to die , you might as well die among your own people . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [61, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He traces his ancestry to Guangdong and affirms that his decision to set up in mainland China \" involves ethnic pride . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangdong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 35]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 93]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although low land and labor costs are Dongguan 's main attractions , Taiwan firms also choose the locale for the networks of people and producers that have been built up among Taiwanese in Dongguan over the last ten years .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 46]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 75]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [176, 185]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [189, 197]}, {"entity": "the last ten years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [203, 221]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These two kinds of networks , says H.D. Yeh - who served as TBAD 's president for two terms - were instrumental in creating the \" Taiwanese economic miracle . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [6, 9]}, {"entity": "H.D. Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [35, 43]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [60, 64]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [82, 85]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [130, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "H.D. Yeh points out that competition in the 21st century is all about speed .", "entity": [{"entity": "H.D. Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "the 21st century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Andrew Yeh recalls that when the company first set up in Dongguan in 1990 , \" Even screws had to be brought in from Taiwan . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Andrew Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [41, 46]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 65]}, {"entity": "1990", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [69, 73]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [116, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But now the company sources virtually all of the necessary raw materials and parts on the mainland and is reliant for very little on Taiwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [133, 139]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" What does industrial emigration entail ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Usually it means downstream industries coming first , forcing the mid-stream industries to follow , \" says Sylvia Yang , deputy chairperson of TBAD 's women 's division .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "Sylvia Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [107, 118]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [143, 147]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And in Dongguan downstream Taiwan firms have expanded into the mid-stream , becoming more vertically integrated .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [7, 15]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tahsin Printing only made paper boxes in Taiwan but when they set up a plant in Dongguan they discovered that it was hard to obtain the paper rolls they needed and thus learned how to make them themselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tahsin Printing", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 15]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 47]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 88]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now the company makes paper boxes both from rolled paper and from colored flat paper .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Many companies have expanded into new business realms in Dongguan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [57, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A frequently cited example is Primax , H.D. Yeh 's electronics firm .", "entity": [{"entity": "Primax", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 36]}, {"entity": "H.D. Yeh 's", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "After three years , they began in 1992 to invest massively on the mainland , establishing computer mouse production lines .", "entity": [{"entity": "three years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [6, 17]}, {"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [34, 38]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Constantly expanding its product lines and production capacity , Primax expanded from a single Dongguan plant with 25 workers in 1989 to its current nine factories and 4,000 - plus workforce .", "entity": [{"entity": "Primax", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [65, 71]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 103]}, {"entity": "25", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [115, 117]}, {"entity": "1989", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [129, 133]}, {"entity": "nine", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [149, 153]}, {"entity": "4,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [168, 173]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "These are helpful to the mother company both in terms of controlling costs and filling large orders , \" says Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [109, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dongguan Hsu Fu Chi Foods , which sells candy , cakes and candied fruit in the mainland domestic market , is another good example .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan Hsu Fu Chi Foods", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They began production there in 1992 , formally opening their own plant in Dongguan in 1994 .", "entity": [{"entity": "1992", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [31, 35]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 82]}, {"entity": "1994", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [86, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The company now has three factories in Dongguan , with a combined area of 120,000 square meters , that produce 200 tons of candy , 70 tons of Chinese - style cakes , and 180 tons of gelatin and pudding a day .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [20, 25]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 47]}, {"entity": "120,000 square meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [74, 95]}, {"entity": "200 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [111, 119]}, {"entity": "70 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [131, 138]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [142, 149]}, {"entity": "180 tons", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [170, 178]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" We produce 300 - 500 container loads of food a month .", "entity": [{"entity": "300 - 500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You can find our cakes in supermarkets all the way from Guangzhou to Tibet . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Guangzhou", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 65]}, {"entity": "Tibet", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Norman Hsu , the company 's vice president , says that after one invests on the mainland , layouts of Taiwan factories seem exceedingly cramped .", "entity": [{"entity": "Norman Hsu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [61, 64]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [102, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" There 's a totally different sense of space . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Dongguan is by itself one - thirteenth the size of Taiwan , \" notes Chen Ming - chih , secretary general of the Taiwan Business Association .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [2, 10]}, {"entity": "one - thirteenth", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 40]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 59]}, {"entity": "Chen Ming - chih", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [70, 86]}, {"entity": "the Taiwan Business Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [110, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Dongguan factories are more than ten times the sizes of similar plants in Taiwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 11]}, {"entity": "more than ten", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [26, 39]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [77, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One factory building at the Talingshan furniture plant is 380 meters long .", "entity": [{"entity": "One", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "Talingshan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [28, 38]}, {"entity": "380 meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [58, 68]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Walking the perimeter of a leading electronics plant in Qishi is \" like playing four holes of golf . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Qishi", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 61]}, {"entity": "four", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [80, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Like soldiers , workers often have to take different shifts in the cafeteria .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Pouchen shoe plant , Dongguan 's largest , employs 100,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pouchen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 11]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 33]}, {"entity": "100,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The compound has a nursery , hospital and an operating room .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" We always jokingly refer to it as Fort Pouchen , \" says Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pouchen", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 48]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [58, 61]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Victory to the strivers", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although the Taiwan firms in Dongguan have left home , their success can largely be attributed to an ethos they transplanted from Taiwan - that \" victory goes to those who strive the hardest . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [13, 19]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [29, 37]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [130, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" In Taiwan , we used to take the children somewhere fun on weekends and holidays , \" says Chang Mei - liang of TBAD 's women 's division .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 11]}, {"entity": "Chang Mei - liang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [91, 108]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [112, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But since she 's moved the factory , \" there has n't been a single meal the whole family has eaten together . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you want to open a plant on the mainland , you 're going to have to sacrifice family intimacy . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Taiwan , a boss just has to set the factory 's basic course and at the very most supervise the executives , \" explains Sylvia Yang , the women 's division 's deputy chairperson .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 9]}, {"entity": "Sylvia Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [122, 133]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" But on the mainland , a boss has to supervise everything : customs , tax payments , workers ' disputes , meal preparation . . . .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's always the feeling that everyone will start to slack off once the boss leaves . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "All the job - related pressures and evenings out with fellow Taiwanese business people or Communist Party cadres result in ill health for many Taiwan business people on the mainland .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [61, 70]}, {"entity": "Communist Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 105]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [143, 149]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "One of Chen 's tasks as chairperson of TBAD is to handle funeral arrangements for Taiwanese business people there .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [7, 11]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [39, 43]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [82, 91]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Many of them die suddenly , \" he says .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The association has been trying to promote healthier lifestyles .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Instead of just going out to karaoke bars and drinking , why not play golf too , \" recommends H.D. Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "H.D. Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [96, 104]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dongguan has four or five golf courses within city limits .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "four or five", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [13, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "About 1,000 people play every day , and 80 - 90 % of them are Taiwanese .", "entity": [{"entity": "1,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [6, 11]}, {"entity": "80 - 90 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [40, 49]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 71]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Taiwanese entrepreneurial spirit has blossomed here by processing goods for export through Hong Kong in addition to making the most of connections between local Taiwan firms .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 13]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [95, 104]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [165, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With 3,000 Taiwan - owned businesses here , and 10 - 20,000 Taiwanese business people and their dependants coming in and out every day , the Dong - guan area has already developed an economic circle in which Taiwan firms can conduct most of their business among themselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "3,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [5, 10]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 17]}, {"entity": "10 - 20,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [48, 59]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [60, 69]}, {"entity": "Dong - guan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [141, 152]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [208, 214]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the vibrant district of Houjian , there is an area that locals call Taiwan Town .", "entity": [{"entity": "Houjian", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 34]}, {"entity": "Taiwan Town", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [71, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A casual look around reveals shop signs familiar to any Taiwanese : Taichung Goose , Ah - shui Shih 's Pig Knuckle Kingdom , Yungho Soy Milk , the Mantu Hair Salon . . . . and most of the customers are Taiwanese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [56, 65]}, {"entity": "Taichung Goose", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [68, 82]}, {"entity": "Ah - shui Shih 's Pig Knuckle Kingdom", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 122]}, {"entity": "Yungho Soy Milk", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [125, 140]}, {"entity": "the Mantu Hair Salon", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [143, 163]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [202, 211]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Restaurants serve up authentic Taiwanese fare like \" pineapples and bitter melon chicken \" and \" sesame oil chicken . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [31, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In November 1998 Global Express , a Taiwan firm , even opened up a shuttle bus to Hong Kong 's airport .", "entity": [{"entity": "November 1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 16]}, {"entity": "Global Express", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 31]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 42]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [82, 94]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Global Express serves as a good example of Taiwanese corporate agility .", "entity": [{"entity": "Global Express", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [43, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Originally , arrivals from Taiwan en route to Dongguan had to board buses run by a Hong Kong - based and mainland - financed travel agency .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 33]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 54]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [83, 92]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" But we felt that the service left something to be desired , and that a lot of time would always be wasted while holders of ' Taiwanese Compatriot Visas ' cleared customs , \" notes David Chang , Global Travel Holding 's executive director .", "entity": [{"entity": "' Taiwanese Compatriot Visas '", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [125, 155]}, {"entity": "David Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [182, 193]}, {"entity": "Global Travel Holding 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [196, 220]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Two years ago , this Taiwanese travel agency began to talk with the mainland customs and border inspection agencies and negotiated a deal to get the route .", "entity": [{"entity": "Two years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 13]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [21, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" We tell Taiwanese business people that riding our buses is safe , the service is good , and that it makes the trip through customs easy . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [10, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In enemy territory", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As soon as you 're through customs at Hong Kong , you see them : women draped with beauty pageant - like sashes with the Chinese characters for \" Global Travel \" emblazoned across them .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 47]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [121, 128]}, {"entity": "\" Global Travel \"", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [144, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pushing small luggage carts , they lead customers to the buses .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They have become a \" must - see \" tourist sight for Taiwanese visitors to Dongguan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [52, 61]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" At first we thought of talking with Hong Kong airport about renting a counter , \" explains Chang .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [5, 10]}, {"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [38, 47]}, {"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [93, 98]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" But for just one - fourth of a six square - meter booth , the rent comes to HK$ 200,000 . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "one - fourth", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [15, 27]}, {"entity": "six square - meter", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [33, 51]}, {"entity": "HK$ 200,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [78, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So the company thought that instead of spending that much money on a booth it made more sense to lower operating costs and pass these along in the form of lower fares for its customers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They never expected that the luggage carts would in fact make it much easier for customers to find them in sprawling Hong Kong airport and would become an easily recognizable company trademark .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [117, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Now mainland Chinese travel agencies have started copying the way we use the carts , \" says Chang , laughing .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [15, 22]}, {"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [94, 99]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Since Global buses started plying this route in November 1988 , daily bus departures have risen from 4 to 27 , with over 20,000 riders a month .", "entity": [{"entity": "Global", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [6, 12]}, {"entity": "November 1988", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 61]}, {"entity": "4", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [101, 102]}, {"entity": "27", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [106, 108]}, {"entity": "20,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [121, 127]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Global plans to introduce new services , including car rentals and plane ticket reservations and confirmations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Global", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dongguan appears to have a bright future .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The Taiwan firms here now are powerful enough to get two or three members of the Legislative Yuan to represent their interests , \" holds one senior reporter .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [6, 12]}, {"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [55, 58]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [62, 67]}, {"entity": "the Legislative Yuan", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [79, 99]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [139, 142]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although TBAD 's Yeh believes that investment prospects on the mainland are good , he does acknowledge the precariousness of their position in hostile territory .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 13]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [17, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Taiwan business interests can not put down their guard .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Because of Taiwan 's experience with rapid modernization , many CCP cadres have sought employment with Taiwanese firms , hoping to learn from the masters .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [11, 17]}, {"entity": "CCP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 67]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [103, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the first opportunity , however , they leave to set up shop for themselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [7, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The student then challenges the master , \" explains Sylvia Yang , detailing how these mainland upstarts go on to compete with the very Taiwan firms that taught them all they know .", "entity": [{"entity": "Sylvia Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [54, 65]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [137, 143]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This scenario should be familiar to Taiwanese .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [36, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" It happens in Taiwan too . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 22]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apart from keeping up their guard , it is even more important that Taiwan firms raise their productivity and technological level .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [67, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Many manufacturers , even those in mainland China , will not survive , \" says Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [46, 51]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [80, 83]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Taiwan firms find it difficult to adjust to the instability of the mainland 's investment environment , as well as the laws there that seemingly change overnight .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 6]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The year before last the mainland announced a new tax system , under which raw materials imported by foreign firms would be taxed at a rate of 17 % , with 9 % being returned to the manufacturer when finished goods were exported .", "entity": [{"entity": "The year before last", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [0, 20]}, {"entity": "17 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [143, 147]}, {"entity": "9 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [155, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" When I went to Beijing to negotiate , \" recalls Yeh , \" I asked cadres in the foreign trade office to consider the impact of the tax on the electronics industry .", "entity": [{"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 24]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Profit margins are at best 3 - 5 % .", "entity": [{"entity": "3 - 5 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [27, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How can manufacturers afford to pay a 17 % import tax ? \"", "entity": [{"entity": "17 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [38, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In June of last year the PRC authorities announced the \" Document # 35 \" rules .", "entity": [{"entity": "June of last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 20]}, {"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [25, 28]}, {"entity": "\" Document # 35 \"", "entity_type": "law", "pos": [55, 72]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "These stipulated that companies would be given grades according to the quantity of their exports and their records of breaking customs regulations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Those meriting only a B would have to offer a deposit of 40 - 50 % against the value of their raw material imports .", "entity": [{"entity": "40 - 50 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [57, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This terrified Taiwan firms in Dongguan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [15, 21]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 39]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "According to TBAD 's statistics , 75 % of the Taiwanese firms were given Bs .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [13, 17]}, {"entity": "75 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [34, 38]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [46, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The announcement caused quite a stir , but its effect on Taiwanese investment is as yet unclear .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [57, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In August of last year , as the mainland customs authorities took aggressive moves against smuggling , 12 Taiwan business people in Dongguan were detained .", "entity": [{"entity": "August of last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 22]}, {"entity": "12", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [103, 105]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [106, 112]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 140]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The charges ran the gamut from not filling out proper forms to purchasing phony export contracts and trying to pass them off to customs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Seven business people were arrested and charged with smuggling and are still in jail .", "entity": [{"entity": "Seven", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" I 'm constantly thinking about them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I 'm meditating and have gone vegetarian , but I 'm still not at peace , \" Yeh says .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 78]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On the mainland , the highest penalty for smuggling is death .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Last year the mainland sent nine customs officers to the firing squad , \" notes Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [2, 11]}, {"entity": "nine", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [30, 34]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [82, 85]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The fate of these Taiwanese businessmen will depend entirely on the mainland 's political climate .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [18, 27]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Whether its arrival was by accident or design , a new age for Taiwanese firms in Dongguan is here .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 71]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [81, 89]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is a far cry from the days when Taiwan firms enjoyed tremendous advantages .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From the various revisions to trade law adopted by the PRC last year , Chang Han - wen extrapolates that the PRC both wants to protect its uncompetitive state firms and turn from low - tech processing to high - tech production .", "entity": [{"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [55, 58]}, {"entity": "last year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [59, 68]}, {"entity": "Chang Han - wen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [71, 86]}, {"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [109, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" This is because state enterprises pressure the government with appeals about their right to survival , \" Yeh says .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [107, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When foreign firms in the mainland are confronted with threats to their safety and property , \" Hong Kong can count on the cooperation of the government , US and Japanese businesses can turn to their ambassadors , but what can Taiwan firms do ? \" asks Yeh .", "entity": [{"entity": "Hong Kong", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [96, 105]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [155, 157]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [162, 170]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [227, 233]}, {"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [252, 255]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Dongguan they can help each other .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , more than 80 % of the 3,000 Taiwanese firms in Dongguan have joined TBAD .", "entity": [{"entity": "80 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [22, 26]}, {"entity": "3,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [34, 39]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [40, 49]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [59, 67]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 84]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "TBAD has 29 local branches in Dongguan and is , moreover , the only Taiwan business association in mainland China with a women 's division .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "29", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [9, 11]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 38]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [68, 74]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [108, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Major companies listed on the TAIEX , including Lite - on Electronics and Delta Electronics , are members of TBAD .", "entity": [{"entity": "TAIEX", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [30, 35]}, {"entity": "Lite - on Electronics", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [48, 69]}, {"entity": "Delta Electronics", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 91]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [109, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is the largest and strongest of all Taiwan business groups on the mainland both in terms of organization and operations .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [39, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many Taiwanese believe that at a time of cross-strait tension , Taiwan firms have made their own decisions to invest in the mainland and therefore should bear the risk themselves too .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [5, 14]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [64, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And by investing their money , technology and so forth on the mainland , are they not to some degree abandoning Taiwan ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [112, 118]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "TBAD takes issue with this view .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "H.D. Yeh points out that in 1998 Taiwan had an overall trade surplus of US$ 5.9 billion , and a surplus of US$ 12.76 billion with mainland China .", "entity": [{"entity": "H.D. Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 8]}, {"entity": "1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [28, 32]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 39]}, {"entity": "US$ 5.9 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [72, 87]}, {"entity": "US$ 12.76 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [107, 124]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [139, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If not for its trade with the PRC , therefore , Taiwan would have had a trade deficit .", "entity": [{"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [30, 33]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" We make our money here , but we pay taxes in Taiwan , and most of our families and children do most of their consumer spending in Taiwan , \" insists TBAD chairperson Chang Mei - liang .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 53]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 138]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [151, 155]}, {"entity": "Chang Mei - liang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [168, 185]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang notes that after the major earthquake in Taiwan on September 21 , Taiwan business associations throughout mainland China contributed NT$ 60 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [47, 53]}, {"entity": "September 21", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [57, 69]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [72, 78]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [121, 126]}, {"entity": "NT$ 60 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [139, 153]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "TBAD contributed NT$ 30 million all by itself .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "NT$ 30 million", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [17, 31]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , he argues that it 's very unfair to say that Taiwanese businesses in the mainland are n't contributing to Taiwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [53, 62]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The question is , how should the ROC government view Taiwan firms in the mainland ?", "entity": [{"entity": "ROC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 36]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 59]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And for that matter how is the PRC government looking at the Taiwanese in Dongguan ?", "entity": [{"entity": "PRC", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [31, 34]}, {"entity": "Taiwanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [61, 70]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [74, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "TBAD 's spiritual leader H.D. Yeh often goes to Beijing to represent Taiwan firms in negotiations with the government .", "entity": [{"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "H.D. Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [25, 33]}, {"entity": "Beijing", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [48, 55]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 75]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Once , in the presence of many Communist Party cadres , a high - ranking official of the State Council 's Taiwan Affairs Office asked him this question : \" You 've gathered so many Taiwan firms in Dongguan and stirred up such enthusiasm among them - but for what purpose ? \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Communist Party", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [31, 46]}, {"entity": "the State Council 's", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [85, 105]}, {"entity": "Taiwan Affairs Office", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [106, 127]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [181, 187]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [197, 205]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It threw him for a loop .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Yeh is still trying to figure out what the mainland authorities think of TBAD .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yeh", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "TBAD", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [73, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For Taiwan firms in Dongguan , investing in mainland China is a road of no return .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 10]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 28]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [53, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" In recent years many Taiwan business people have also tried to invest in Vietnam , only later to close their factories there , \" says Chang Han - wen .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [5, 17]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [23, 29]}, {"entity": "Vietnam", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [75, 82]}, {"entity": "Chang Han - wen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [136, 151]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mainland China shares the same language as Taiwan and it offers attractive investment conditions .", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [9, 14]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [43, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It would be surprising if it did n't attract Taiwan firms that are eager to set up offshore .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 51]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Amid the cross-strait political standoff , one can expect that Taiwan firms in Dongguan will continue to live out this exciting tale of gain and loss .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [63, 69]}, {"entity": "Dongguan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [79, 87]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Jackie Cheng / photos by Diago Chiu / tr. by Jonathan Barnard )", "entity": [{"entity": "Jackie Cheng", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 14]}, {"entity": "Diago Chiu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [27, 37]}, {"entity": "Jonathan Barnard", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [47, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Source : Taiwan Business Association of Dongguan", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan Business Association of Dongguan", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [9, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Graphic by Tsai Chih - pen", "entity": [{"entity": "Tsai Chih - pen", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Tips for Getting through Middle Age", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Laura Li / photos by Hsueh Chi - kuang / tr. by Jonathan Barnard )", "entity": [{"entity": "Laura Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 10]}, {"entity": "Hsueh Chi - kuang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [23, 40]}, {"entity": "Jonathan Barnard", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [50, 66]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Middle age and the changes it brings are like a revolving door .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many people peacefully go through it , growing wiser and losing their rough edges .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A minority do n't know whether to advance or retreat and get caught in it like a trap .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Middle age is a time where one wears more hats than at any other time in one 's life , when one 's responsibilities are heaviest .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a result , the crises experienced by a minority of middle - aged people can involve a lot of other people , so their impact can not be overlooked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Middle age , those years between 40 and 60 , is both the time of life of greatest glory and the time of life that 's easiest to overlook .", "entity": [{"entity": "those years between 40 and 60", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [13, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In comparison to youth or old age , the middle years are often thought of as the time when power , ability , wealth , and physical strength are all at or near their peak , so that one has no excuse for feeling melancholy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even if there are problems , it is commonly thought that one should be able to resolve them by oneself , notes Chiu Chia - li , director of the Hwo Chyuan Pastoral Counseling Center , who has worked on many middle - aged cases .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chiu Chia - li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [111, 125]}, {"entity": "the Hwo Chyuan Pastoral Counseling Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [140, 181]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Social bias makes many of the middle aged afraid to discuss their problems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is particularly the case for men , who generally find it difficult to talk about their feelings .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But by keeping everything inside , they may cause irreparable harm to their health .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In recent years cancer , sudden death and suicide have become all too common during middle age , which shows that the psychological problems of the middle - aged should not be overlooked .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How do you safely pass through the changes of the middle years ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Here are a few suggestions :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "1. Live well at every stage of life", "entity": [{"entity": "1.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Li Liang - che , a professor of psychology at National Chengchi University , looks at the question from the angle of developmental psychology .", "entity": [{"entity": "Li Liang - che", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "National Chengchi University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [46, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He points out that the path of life is continuous : everyone moves from infancy and childhood , to youth and middle age .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Smoothly passing through any period of life helps make getting through the next period easier .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In other words , the people most at risk during middle age are those who have had difficulties earlier in life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Foreign research shows that those with high social and economic status and with ample financial resources bear up better during crisis and have more ways to get out of trouble .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is it too late to start talking about these problems when you are already middle - aged ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang Der - chung , an associate professor in the Department of Living Science at National Open University who worked at a counseling hotline for over a decade , argues that any step in the right direction is worthwhile , no matter when you start .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang Der - chung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 17]}, {"entity": "Department of Living Science at National Open University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 106]}, {"entity": "over a decade", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [146, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Middle - aged problems are rather predictable , and they 're not hard to avoid .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you worried that your marriage is growing stale ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then no matter how busy you are , you 've got to set aside some time to be with your spouse .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you worried about losing your job ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then start developing a second skill and get into the habit of saving and managing your money .", "entity": [{"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [24, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Are you worried about how to care for your parents when they get old and sick ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then spend more time with them , and encourage them to get more exercise and take care of themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are so many things to be concerned about during middle age that you had better get an early start .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Otherwise , you 'll end up being overwhelmed .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "2. Start over", "entity": [{"entity": "2.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In China it used to be said that middle age was the period when one was \" heir to the ancient sages and the teacher of posterity . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 8]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But now times are changing so fast that perhaps the lessons of past experience are no longer suitable for solving today 's problems .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To assume a posture of superiority based on one 's seniority will make one despised .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence , it is necessary to cast aside one 's old self and start over .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chiu notes that many middle - aged who have worked diligently for years to attain management positions look down on the younger generation for being reckless and disorganized , but they do n't realize that creativity and energy may be ready to explode from underneath these flaws .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chiu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 4]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Stuck in the past and full of bitterness , they may end up getting discarded onto the scrap heap of history .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With each new era , role models change .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Until the new role models have been established , it is important to maintain flexibility .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , today 's middle - aged Chinese women are the first to have obtained advanced degrees and to have come in contact with the women 's liberation movement .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [38, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They set high expectations for themselves , but their disappointments are likewise large .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many women are torn between conflicting desires : to be good homemakers like their mothers and to have successful careers like their fathers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Their candles are burning at both ends , because they are trying to live up to two old role models rather than establishing a new one for themselves .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [79, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then there are men who insist upon being strict fathers and disciplinarians or staying at the same company until they retire .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And there are women who are determined to play the role of the traditional Chinese wife and mother .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [75, 82]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ignoring the changing times , they place tremendous pressure on themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "3. Turn the focus from outside to inside", "entity": [{"entity": "3.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Life is a process that moves from the \" outward \" to the \" inward , \" says Alice Lu , director of the International Family Life Education Center , getting to the heart of the matter .", "entity": [{"entity": "Alice Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [75, 83]}, {"entity": "the International Family Life Education Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [98, 144]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lu explains that as children people yearn for the affection of their parents ; as adolescents they want the affirmation of their peers ; and as adults , they set their sights on educational qualifications , finding a good job , making money , marrying a good spouse and so forth .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everyone puts the emphasis on outward manifestations of success , and this emphasis on the glitter of outward achievement continues up to middle age .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" By middle age , people have gotten from the outside world just about all they can , \" says Lu .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [93, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" What they have n't attained yet they probably wo n't attain ever , so it 's not worth getting all worked up about it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the time of life when the doubts set in . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many middle - aged people begin to ask themselves , \" Is this really what I want ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What has been the point of all my hard striving ? \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When the doubts come , some people continue trying to find answers from outside , thinking that everything would be fine if they could just change jobs or wives !", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But then they rashly switch jobs or foolishly get involved in an affair only to find that they 've just made things worse .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" In middle age you start to listen to what 's going on inside , \" says Lu .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [72, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" It 's the time of life when you start to hone your skills at conversing with your soul . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "People ask themselves : Am I truly happy ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do I like the person I see in the mirror ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What dreams can I pursue ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At this point , there is no longer any need to try to measure oneself against outside standards .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Instead it 's more important to accept oneself and attempt to find an inner balance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" One need not compare one 's inner achievements with those of other people , \" notes Chiu .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chiu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [86, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everyone 's circumstances and personalities are different , and they place different expectations on themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It 's not a matter of being better or worse than anyone else , and there 's no need to follow the currents of fashion .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everyone is unique .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Morris Chang was in his fifties when he became an entrepreneur and founded Taiwan Semiconductor .", "entity": [{"entity": "Morris Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 12]}, {"entity": "Taiwan Semiconductor", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [75, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many others at the same time in life have opted to take early retirement and find a guru in India , work as a volunteer , or do whatever else they want to do .", "entity": [{"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [92, 97]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the modern age when people value different things , you can find a purely personal kind of happiness and success .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "4. Realistically strive for one 's dreams", "entity": [{"entity": "4.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When focusing inward , many dreams that have long been discarded will end up floating to the surface .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At such times , one should remember to ask oneself three questions :", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [51, 56]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" What do I want ? \" \" What can I do ? \" And \" What must I do and have ? \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang Der - chung reminds people to think clearly about their needs , and then think about the costs .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang Der - chung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will meeting these personal needs necessarily come into conflict with meeting one 's responsibilities ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is there some way that the two can be accomplished simultaneously ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When facing problems at work in Taiwan , many people decide to change careers or even to pursue their fortunes in mainland China or Southeast Asia .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [32, 38]}, {"entity": "China", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [123, 128]}, {"entity": "Southeast Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [132, 146]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pursuing some dream of really making it big , many men use up their savings , leaving their wives as the sole source of family support and suffering loneliness in a foreign land .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There 's no right or wrong here , and there 's no way to guarantee a venture will be successful , but beforehand one must at least be realistic and prepare oneself psychologically for all possible outcomes , so that one wo n't suffer losses larger than one can bear .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" It is indeed the case that when one is young , one 's quiver is full of arrows and opportunities abound , so that one can shoot at will , \" says Chang by way of analogy .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [147, 152]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Once you get into middle age , you 've got to make every arrow count . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang explains that everyone has dreams , and that continually working toward those dreams is an excellent method of relieving stress at any age .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Middle - aged people have heavy burdens , and sometimes they may feel as if they are suffocating under them .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" But accomplishing a lot of little changes can bring about a big change . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If you make an effort to do what you can , you will immediately find that your burdens have been lightened .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang cites this example : Say you hate being tied up by your work , and would like to go back to school .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do n't you try a weekend class ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Maybe that would help to alleviate your anxiety .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Or if you are a housewife , taking care of three generations and resentful that you ca n't go out and get the sense of accomplishment that comes with a full - time job , then maybe you could work as a volunteer in a community organization .", "entity": [{"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [43, 48]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This would both put you into contact with other people and help you gain a sense of accomplishment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And you can help to sweat off your middle - aged anxieties by making a habit of regularly exercising .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What 's more , do n't worry too much about time being short .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Remember that most modern people live long lives that can be divided up into many stages .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In middle age , when you discover that your personal desires are coming into conflict with the demands of your family or society , decide which of your problems are the most urgent .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't try to accomplish all of your dreams at once .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Maintain an unhurried frame of mind and peacefully wait for opportunities to present themselves .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "5. Change your perspective", "entity": [{"entity": "5.", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [0, 2]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In middle age , one 's life is already half over , and one has already amply tasted of life 's fruits , both the bitter and the sweet .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" I am thankful for the bad times , for they have given me more insight into life and a better opportunity to understand myself , \" says Lin Hung - kuei , an I - kuan Tao devotee , who has studied the Book of Changes and fengshui .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lin Hung - kuei", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [137, 152]}, {"entity": "the Book of Changes", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [197, 216]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Taking care of your parents , losing your job , illness and even being cheated out of money can be embraced as opportunities to experience life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They are lessons that the middle - aged learn from to become more proficient at the art of living .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" By changing perspective , you can understand the insignificance of your problems , \" points out Chiu Chia - li .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chiu Chia - li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [98, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is very important to adjust your frame of mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You should n't think that there is only one way that you can be .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As long as you can accept yourself , then everything is all right .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As for losing your job in middle age , some people make NT$ 100,000 and it 's not enough .", "entity": [{"entity": "NT$ 100,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [56, 67]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Other's find that NT$ 20,000 is more than enough to support the family .", "entity": [{"entity": "NT$ 20,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [18, 28]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The problem is that by insisting on making NT$ 100,000 a month , you may pass by a suitable job that pays NT$ 20,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "NT$ 100,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [43, 54]}, {"entity": "NT$ 20,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [106, 116]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chang also notes that when people come to forks in the road when they reach middle age , they may look around in all directions and feel at a loss , but they 've got to encourage themselves to keep pressing ahead .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Even if you feel uncertain , it should be a positive feeling of uncertainty . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At the very least , you 've got to work hard at establishing a sense of direction .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When Li Liang - che starts feeling sorry for himself , he uses the age - old method of considering those who are even worse off .", "entity": [{"entity": "Li Liang - che", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Those people who are always complaining about their lot in life should take a walk around a cancer ward , \" Li says .", "entity": [{"entity": "Li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [108, 110]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Then they 'll realize how lucky they are . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chiu Chia - li , on the other hand , encourages the middle - aged not to close themselves off .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chiu Chia - li", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They must get out and make friends , so as to get things off their chests and find support from each other .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This makes it easier to get through the bad times .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Finally , there is something that may seem a little cliched but is often very useful - namely the realization that things will get better , that tomorrow is another day .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Whether you are depressed or going berserk , it 's important to remember that hormones are raging inside the bodies of the middle - aged , \" says Chang .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [148, 153]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Much like rebellious adolescents , they may merely need to pass through into another stage for the sky to become blue again .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Do n't give up hope too early , and do n't be afraid of asking for assistance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When you feel at a loss emotionally , the experts will be able to help .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "p. 18", "entity": [{"entity": "18", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The shackles of midlife make middle - aged steps heavy .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How can one escape from one 's commitments to snatch half a day of freedom , and appreciate the world from a new perspective ?", "entity": [{"entity": "half a day", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [53, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "p. 20", "entity": [{"entity": "20", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The middle - aged have dreams .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If built on a solid foundation , they can make life more enjoyable and fulfilling .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "p. 22", "entity": [{"entity": "22", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Is life getting you down ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Go into the crowd , find things to do , and you will rediscover a sense of the value of life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Genteel Journalis --", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thomas Lu", "entity": [{"entity": "Thomas Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Eric Lin / tr. by Robert Taylor )", "entity": [{"entity": "Eric Lin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 10]}, {"entity": "Robert Taylor", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thomas Lu is the doyen of the Chinese news media .", "entity": [{"entity": "Thomas Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 9]}, {"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [30, 37]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Still out on the journalistic front lines at 81 , this spry , forthright veteran has an immense zest for life .", "entity": [{"entity": "81", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [45, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At 78 , drawing on his astonishingly sharp memory , he completed his reminiscences and \" record of emotional regrets . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "78", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He is not only one of the \" wonders \" of Taiwan 's journalistic world , but is also recognized by those of his generation as a gentleman and a \" good - looking man . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [41, 47]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A person 's looks change with their age and their state of mind .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Many friends have told me I look better the older I get .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "People do n't know that when I was young I had dreadful protruding teeth , but now not only do my teeth no longer show , but the lines of my face have also softened .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "People who know me know that there have always been two great loves in my life : the news , and women .", "entity": [{"entity": "two", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [52, 55]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now that I 'm in my 80s , looking back I think I can say I 've done alright in both respects , and I 've learnt that both reporting the news well , and finding favor with women , depend on your character and conduct .", "entity": [{"entity": "80s", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Journalism is not just a profession , but should also be a vocation - you have to throw yourself fully into this infinitely broad field of endeavor .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Intellectually and spiritually , in work and in love , I have gained experience and fulfilment .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I have always remembered the encouragement which Mr. Yu Youren gave me as a young reporter .", "entity": [{"entity": "Yu Youren", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [53, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He said that to be a fearless champion of social justice , as is expected of a journalist , the most important thing , apart from energy and vitality , is modesty .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "You have to treat everybody the same , and not be overawed by the great and powerful .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A president or a street sweeper deserve the same respect as a human being , and should both be treated the same way .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Funnily enough , an unassuming attitude is also advantageous in relations with the opposite sex .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Chinese society is male dominated , and women are mostly regarded as having a subsidiary role .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In this kind of unfair situation , an upstanding man should cherish and respect women all the more .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A considerate attitude can be expressed in little things .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For instance , when you see that a hair has fallen onto a female friend 's shoulder , you should lightly pick it off for her , and throw it away or put it in your pocket .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If sincere , this kind of action is attractive in a man .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "If a woman expresses her liking for you , then no matter whether she is pretty , or whether you find her attractive , you should respond in the same way , and with the same respect .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When I was a young reporter stationed in Europe , there was a British woman reporter who liked me very much .", "entity": [{"entity": "Europe", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [41, 47]}, {"entity": "British", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [62, 69]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Once I was driving her somewhere to report a story when we had an accident , and she suffered some badly broken bones .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although I was n't attracted to her in that way , I went to see her every day in hospital , and this left a deep impression on her of how considerate Chinese men can be .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [150, 157]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Looking back at my life , I 've hardly had any really bad experiences in my relationships with women , and this is because just as in my professional life , I 've always maintained a self - critical attitude towards my emotions , and always tried to prevent myself acting like a male chauvinist .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Looks are something you are born with , but character is something you can work on , and it can outweigh your appearance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Luo Jialun , one of the leading lights of the May Fourth Movement , is a famous example .", "entity": [{"entity": "Luo Jialun", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "the May Fourth Movement", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [42, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Luo was not good looking , and was even ridiculed as \" looking like a cross between a pig , a dog and a bear . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Luo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But he was tremendously well - read , had a beautiful writing style , and for a time he was Chinese ambassador to India .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chinese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [92, 99]}, {"entity": "India", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [114, 119]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "His wife was a universally admired beauty , the envy of all .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "So I say , \" handsome is as handsome does . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "I was imprisoned by both the Kuomintang and the Communists , and at times I might have been killed .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuomintang", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [29, 39]}, {"entity": "Communists", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [48, 58]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps other people in the same situation might have wallowed in self - pity , but I saw it as a rare opportunity in life .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1951 , in a dark prison cell during a big Communist purge , what came into my mind was not fear of death .", "entity": [{"entity": "1951", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Communist", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [45, 54]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Instead , I wondered what kind of headline my death would merit in the newspapers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" 10,000 Rush to See Lu Executed \" ?", "entity": [{"entity": "10,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [2, 8]}, {"entity": "Lu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [21, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Perhaps it was this eternal optimism which changed my frame of mind and my appearance .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This is the advice I 'd like to give young people :", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "it 's true that good looks can come from external grooming , wearing nice clothes , or wearing earrings ; and perhaps you can get other people 's attention by creating your own special look .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But do n't overdo it .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It is appropriate dress , and a temperament developed through study and practice , which really make a man attractive .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Remaking of Linpien", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [16, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Home of the Black Pearl Wax Apple", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Teng Sue - feng / photos by Jimmy Lin / tr. by Christopher MacDonald )", "entity": [{"entity": "Teng Sue - feng", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 17]}, {"entity": "Jimmy Lin", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 39]}, {"entity": "Christopher MacDonald", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [49, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Even if the township of Linpien does n't have a monopoly on the cultivation of \" black pearl \" wax apples , it was orchards in the Linpien locality that earned black pearls their national renown .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 31]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [131, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A little town formerly notorious for its ground subsidence problem , Linpien is now turning itself into one of Southern Taiwan 's premier tourist attractions .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [69, 76]}, {"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [104, 107]}, {"entity": "Southern Taiwan 's", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [111, 129]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The impetus for this change has come chiefly from local historians , along with various voluntary groups .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just before Christmas break , the rural township of Linpien , on the Pingtung Plain at the mouth of the Linpien river , held its first ever Wax Apple Festival .", "entity": [{"entity": "Christmas", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [12, 21]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [52, 59]}, {"entity": "the Pingtung Plain", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [65, 83]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [104, 111]}, {"entity": "first", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [129, 134]}, {"entity": "Wax Apple Festival", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [140, 158]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The festival , in the town 's riverside park , was held to promote black pearl wax apples and celebrate the local volunteer spirit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was a scorching hot day , and heavily perspiring visitors were to be seen wandering among the stalls , lugging bags of wax apples and commenting on their remarkable sweetness .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" There 's a lot more than you 'd think to growing wax apples , \" says local farmer Chen Sheng - tzung .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen Sheng - tzung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [84, 102]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" How you take care of the orchards , which equipment you use - it all has an affect on the shape and texture of the fruit . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Prices for wax apples range widely , from around 3 pounds for NT$ 100 to NT$ 150 a pound .", "entity": [{"entity": "3 pounds", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [49, 57]}, {"entity": "NT$ 100", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [62, 69]}, {"entity": "NT$ 150", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [73, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Fruit that shows a hint of black through the red color of the skin fetches the best price .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Huang Wan - fu , whose family farms two hectares of orchard with more than 700 wax apple trees , and who has over 30 years ' experience as a fruit grower , says that while other parts of Pingtung County also grow wax apples , \" Linpien stands out for its growing techniques , developed through trial and error by the growers themselves , and for vernalization rates of up to 90 % . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Huang Wan - fu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 14]}, {"entity": "two hectares", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [36, 48]}, {"entity": "more than 700", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [65, 78]}, {"entity": "30 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [114, 122]}, {"entity": "Pingtung County", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [187, 202]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [228, 235]}, {"entity": "90 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [375, 379]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Ugly duckling no more", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The wax apple is a tropical fruit originating from the Malay peninsula .", "entity": [{"entity": "Malay", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [55, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The Dutch brought it to Taiwan from Java , in the 17th century , and it became commonly grown as a shade - giving tree .", "entity": [{"entity": "Dutch", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [4, 9]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [24, 30]}, {"entity": "Java", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 40]}, {"entity": "the 17th century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Old folk in the South remember when wax apples were \" just something to munch on \" - the kind of fruit that grew freely and that you could help yourself to .", "entity": [{"entity": "South", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [16, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But wax apples have increased in value during the past 30 years , thanks to advances in the way that they are grown .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past 30 years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [46, 63]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "For example , the \" bag - wrap \" method was originally a way of protecting budding fruit from birds , but once it was introduced to Linpien , in around 1994 , farmers found it enabled them to grow more lustrous , shiny - looking wax apples , with less pesticide on the skin .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [132, 139]}, {"entity": "1994", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [152, 156]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The method soon caught on throughout the district .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Another popular technique involves covering the trees with black mosquito nets to improve yields .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "This reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the trees , causing nutrients from the leaves and branches to be diverted into producing fruit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The net - covered trees blossom earlier and produce more fruit .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As a result of this technique , black pearl wax apples are now available throughout most of the year .", "entity": [{"entity": "most of the year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [84, 100]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The \" black pearl \" tag did n't originate in Linpien , but it was Linpien wax apples that made the variety famous and prompted the dramatic growth of its market .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [45, 52]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [66, 73]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1983 the then - provincial governor Lee Teng - hui visited the town and praised the quality of its black pearl wax apples , so assuring the renown of the fruit .", "entity": [{"entity": "1983", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Lee Teng - hui", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [39, 53]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Subsequently , as president , Lee Teng - hui often gave gifts of black pearl wax apples to foreign dignitaries .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lee Teng - hui", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [30, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Green hills", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The success of black pearl wax apples gave Linpien a much - needed boost , bringing some of the younger generation back to the area to grow the fruit .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [43, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The credit for putting wax apples at the heart of the town 's revival and for mounting the Wax Apple Festival belongs with a group of volunteer workers - local people committed to the town 's regeneration .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Wax Apple Festival", "entity_type": "event", "pos": [87, 109]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "How does a small town like Linpien come to be home to such a well - organized volunteer effort , and just how did the volunteers set about giving their town a make - over ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [27, 34]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The story begins with the town 's riverside park .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The road linking the town 's main street with the riverside park , where locals like to stroll and chat at the beginning and end of the day , used to be overgrown and lined with trash .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Now , however , thanks to a coordinated effort involving volunteers , residents and landlords , the verges are planted with sunflowers and lantana , while a former mud patch , donated rent - free by its owner , has been converted into a carp - filled lotus pool .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The revamping of Linpien started eight or nine years ago , when schoolteacher Tsao Chi - hung - now a DPP deputy in the national legislature - along with fellow members of the Linpien Residents ' Democracy Association launched a program to sweep the streets and keep the riverbank clean .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 24]}, {"entity": "eight or nine years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [33, 56]}, {"entity": "Tsao Chi - hung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [78, 93]}, {"entity": "DPP", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [102, 105]}, {"entity": "the Linpien Residents ' Democracy Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [172, 217]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wu Wu - ta , a plumber who runs the Democracy Association , says : \" People were already doing their bit for the community over ten years ago , but not openly .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wu Wu - ta", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 10]}, {"entity": "the Democracy Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [32, 57]}, {"entity": "ten years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [128, 141]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They swept the streets before dawn because they did n't want people to see them and call them crazy . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It was only three years ago , with the founding of the non-political Linpien Natural History Conservation Association , that residents began to publicly support the project .", "entity": [{"entity": "three years ago", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [12, 27]}, {"entity": "Linpien Natural History Conservation Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [69, 117]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The flood - prone Linpien River has been dyked and dredged since the Japanese colonial era , but the bare concrete embankments never did much for the scenery .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien River", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [18, 31]}, {"entity": "Japanese", "entity_type": "national religious political", "pos": [69, 77]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In 1999 Tsao Chi - hung learned that the Water Conservancy Bureau was planning to renovate the flood defenses , and he proposed a scheme for \" greenification \" of the riverside area .", "entity": [{"entity": "1999", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 7]}, {"entity": "Tsao Chi - hung", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [8, 23]}, {"entity": "the Water Conservancy Bureau", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [37, 65]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Objections were raised , however , with some pointing out that the site , if left untended , could easily get overgrown and become a breeding ground for snakes and vermin .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Following the lead of the conservation association and the Democracy Association , various volunteer groups in the district - including the senior citizens ' club , members of Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation , the Presbyterian Church , and followers of the I - Kuan Tao sect - signed up to share responsibility for the riverside park , which was divided into 90 - meter - long plots for the purpose .", "entity": [{"entity": "the Democracy Association", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [55, 80]}, {"entity": "Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [176, 203]}, {"entity": "the Presbyterian Church", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [206, 229]}, {"entity": "I - Kuan Tao", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [253, 265]}, {"entity": "90 - meter", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [355, 365]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The riverside area used to be a teenage hangout , known for its drinking and fighting , but since greenification the town 's residents have been coming here to stroll and enjoy the scenery : green hills to the East , the sunset in the West , and the dreamy river alongside the park .", "entity": [{"entity": "East", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [210, 214]}, {"entity": "West", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [235, 239]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "In the past half century or more Linpien has concentrated on a series of different forms of produce , from rice , to bananas , to prawn and eel farming , to wax apples - today 's main crop .", "entity": [{"entity": "the past half century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 24]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [33, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With Taiwan 's imminent accession to the WTO , the next big change could be just around the corner .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [5, 11]}, {"entity": "WTO", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [41, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "And what does Linpien have to offer that other districts in the county ca n't easily duplicate ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [14, 21]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "\" I had come to what was said to be the worst county in Taiwan for factionalism and corruption , \" says Yang , \" a place where the ground had sunk as much as three meters due to subsidence .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 62]}, {"entity": "Yang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [104, 108]}, {"entity": "three meters", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [158, 170]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Linpien rose to prominence on the strength of its celebrated wax apples .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But can it now push its way to center - stage as a tourist attraction ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Says Chen Chin - chao : \" We ca n't yet say how things will turn out for Linpien .", "entity": [{"entity": "Chen Chin - chao", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [5, 21]}, {"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 80]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But that 's not to be pessimistic about the town 's prospects ; it 's simply a case of not building castles in the air . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Development of the long - promised Tapeng Bay Scenic Area is due to begin , and in 2003 the 2nd Southern Freeway will open .", "entity": [{"entity": "Tapeng Bay Scenic Area", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [35, 57]}, {"entity": "2003", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [83, 87]}, {"entity": "the 2nd Southern Freeway", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [88, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Will this bring more prosperity to the area ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Construction of a bypass around the town has already boosted property values , but what other benefits may it bring ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A golf course is mooted , but will that mean the loss of birdwatching zones and the mangrove woods ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Can the wax apple orchards be adapted to serve as a setting for family outings ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And can fish farms in the locality be converted to provide housing and accommodation , and a recreation alternative for visitors ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Can this little town make an asset of its scenic location and historical roots to attract more visitors ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Linpien used to be little more than a brief stop for travelers on their way to the seaside resort of Kenting , but now its residents are wondering if they can turn the town into a destination in its own right .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Kenting", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [101, 108]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "At 15.6 sq. km in area , it is the second smallest of Pingtung County 's 33 townships , and has a population of around 23,000 .", "entity": [{"entity": "15.6 sq. km", "entity_type": "quantity", "pos": [3, 14]}, {"entity": "second", "entity_type": "ordinal", "pos": [35, 41]}, {"entity": "Pingtung County 's", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [54, 72]}, {"entity": "33", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [73, 75]}, {"entity": "23,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [119, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wax apples and aquaculture products are the main commodities , with betel nut and coconut also grown .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Visitors are recommended to try the local seafood and also not to miss the opportunity for bird - watching among the nearby estuaries , wetlands and mangrove woods .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are also cultural relics including traces of the original plains - aborigine inhabitants .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Linpien can be reached along Provincial Highway 17 .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [0, 7]}, {"entity": "Provincial Highway 17", "entity_type": "facility", "pos": [29, 50]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The town has a railway station and can also be accessed by public and private bus services .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Using special growing techniques , the farmers of Linpien control the quantity of blossoms on the trees so as to optimize the production of their treasured black pearl wax apples .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [50, 57]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Aquaculture provides for full nets and full bellies , but it is also the culprit behind Linpien 's severe subsidence problem .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [88, 95]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The acreage of fish farms has halved in recent years , due to the combination of falling profits and environmental degradation .", "entity": [{"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [40, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Subsidence has been caused by the over-extraction of ground - water for aquaculture .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Some of the houses on the Linpien - Chiatung coastal strip have sunk to the degree that their windows are level with the street and their rooves are within easy reach .", "entity": [{"entity": "Linpien", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [26, 33]}, {"entity": "Chiatung", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [36, 44]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "The gardens of the riverside park , laid out and maintained by local volunteers , cover land that used to be overgrown and strewn with rubbish .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The people of the town now come here to stroll and enjoy their free time .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The river is blessed with fine scenery , and is good for fishing and birdwatching .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Powerful Tools for Biotechnology - Biochips", "entity": [{"entity": "Powerful Tools for Biotechnology - Biochips", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 43]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "( Chang Chiung - fang / photos by Hsueh Chi - kuang / tr. by Robert Taylor )", "entity": [{"entity": "Chang Chiung - fang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [2, 21]}, {"entity": "Hsueh Chi - kuang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [34, 51]}, {"entity": "Robert Taylor", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [61, 74]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The enterovirus detection biochip developed by DR. Chip Biotechnology takes only six hours to give hospitals the answer to whether a sample contains enterovirus , and if it is the deadly strain Entero 71 .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip Biotechnology", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [47, 69]}, {"entity": "only six hours", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [76, 90]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Worldwide , biotechnology is a rising star of the industrial stage .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In Taiwan , in recent years the Ministry of Economic Affairs , the National Science Council and the National Health Research Institutes have been strongly pursuing \" biochip \" research programs .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [3, 9]}, {"entity": "the Ministry of Economic Affairs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [28, 60]}, {"entity": "the National Science Council", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [63, 91]}, {"entity": "the National Health Research Institutes", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [96, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In the last two years , three biochip companies have also been set up in Taiwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "the last two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [3, 21]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 29]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [73, 79]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Just what are biochips ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What use are they to mankind ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Why do so many people have such confidence in their future ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What is the current state of this field in Taiwan ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [43, 49]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "And what are the prospects for future development ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Let 's take a closer look .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In just a few years ' time , or a few decades , the following scenario could become a reality :", "entity": [{"entity": "a few years '", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [8, 21]}, {"entity": "a few decades", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [32, 45]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "When you 're feeling under the weather , all you need to do is buy a diagnostic biochip from the chemist 's shop , put a drop of urine onto it , and you will find out what is wrong with you - a health check will be as easy as a pregnancy test today .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Everyone will carry with them a biochip bearing a record and analysis of their own DNA .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "From it one will not only be able to see one 's own physical condition , but even to predict what diseases one will have in the future .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "It will be like an ID card , needed when looking for work , buying insurance or even seeking a partner for love and marriage .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Laboratories will no longer need all kinds of large instruments , for all stages of their experiments will be carried out on little biochips , saving time , effort and money .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today , the scenes outlined above may just seem like pipe dreams .", "entity": [{"entity": "Today", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [0, 5]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But these dreams could yet come true , and the key to that happening is those little biochips .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A dream come true ?", "entity": [{"entity": "A dream come true ?", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 19]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Developments such as the sequencing of the human genome and the rapid development of genetic engineering have spawned biotechnology industries like bioinformatics , biomaterials and pharmaceutical engineering , which have emerged as the rising stars of 21st - century industry .", "entity": [{"entity": "21st - century", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [253, 267]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As part of the government 's efforts to promote the biotechnology industry in Taiwan , in July 1999 the Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ) set up the Biomedical Engineering Center ( BMEC ) to actively develop biomedical engineering technologies .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [78, 84]}, {"entity": "July 1999", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [90, 99]}, {"entity": "the Industrial Technology Research Institute", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [100, 144]}, {"entity": "ITRI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [147, 151]}, {"entity": "the Biomedical Engineering Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [161, 194]}, {"entity": "BMEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [197, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Biochips are one of the core technologies in the field .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "BMEC general director Dr. Johnsee Lee says that the ITRI 's four - year R&D program in biochip applications and technology is now in its second year .", "entity": [{"entity": "BMEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 37]}, {"entity": "ITRI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [52, 56]}, {"entity": "four - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [60, 71]}, {"entity": "second year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [137, 148]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Its initial objectives are mainly focused on developing sensor chips to screen for infectious diseases , while later goals will be to develop technologies to test for genetic diseases and cancers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "As well as this new research establishment , in the two years since September 1998 three commercial companies have been set up in Taiwan to make biochips : U - Vision Biotech , Taiwan Genome Sciences and DR. Chip Biotechnology .", "entity": [{"entity": "the two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [48, 61]}, {"entity": "September 1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [68, 82]}, {"entity": "three", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [83, 88]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [130, 136]}, {"entity": "U - Vision Biotech", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [156, 174]}, {"entity": "Taiwan Genome Sciences", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [177, 199]}, {"entity": "DR. Chip Biotechnology", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [204, 226]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Of these , DR. Chip attracted much attention this year when it developed a chip to detect enteroviruses , a deadly epidemic of which has gripped Taiwan over the last two years .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [11, 19]}, {"entity": "this year", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [45, 54]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [145, 151]}, {"entity": "the last two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [157, 175]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "DR. Chip Bio-technology was set up in September 1998 .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip Bio-technology", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 23]}, {"entity": "September 1998", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [38, 52]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Vice president Wang Shin - hwan states that the company successfully applied to the Ministry of Economic Affairs for funding to help it pursue a development program for enterovirus detection chips and test technology .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wang Shin - hwan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [15, 31]}, {"entity": "the Ministry of Economic Affairs", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [80, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Today , the enterovirus chip is in the testing phase , and DR. Chip is collaborating with Taipei Veterans General Hospital to obtain samples with which to establish the accuracy of the chip .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [59, 67]}, {"entity": "Taipei Veterans General Hospital", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 122]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What is so remarkable about the enterovirus detection chip when compared with traditional test methods ?", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "There are 68 known forms of non-polio enterovirus .", "entity": [{"entity": "68", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [10, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The detection chip does not simply determine whether a person is infected with enterovirus , but can also differentiate between different virus groups , for instance showing whether a sample contains the deadly Entero 71 virus , or Coxsackie A16 , which is easily confused with Entero 71 .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In addition , the chip and its accompanying PCR kit greatly reduce the time required for testing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Wang Shin - hwan notes that traditional bacterial and viral cultures take seven to ten days to prepare , and even with the newer molecular biology testing techniques it takes three days to get a result .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wang Shin - hwan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 16]}, {"entity": "three days", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [175, 185]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But DR. Chip has developed methods to reduce the sample preparation time , which enables a result to be obtained in only six hours when used in combination with their enterovirus chip .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [4, 12]}, {"entity": "only six hours", "entity_type": "time", "pos": [116, 130]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Furthermore , the initial results of joint trials by DR. Chip , Chang Gung University and National Cheng Kung University suggest that the chip is over a thousand times more sensitive than traditional test methods .", "entity": [{"entity": "DR. Chip", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [53, 61]}, {"entity": "Chang Gung University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [64, 85]}, {"entity": "National Cheng Kung University", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [90, 120]}, {"entity": "thousand", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [153, 161]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" In addition to enterovirus , we plan to develop chips to detect other infectious diseases such as hepatitis B , hepatitis C and HIV , \" says Wang Shin - hwan .", "entity": [{"entity": "Wang Shin - hwan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [143, 159]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apart from the enterovirus chip , which is already at the testing stage , the ITRI 's Molecular Biomedical Technology Division is also conducting research and development on biochip applications and technology .", "entity": [{"entity": "the ITRI 's Molecular Biomedical Technology Division", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [74, 126]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Research program director Pan Chao - chi states that at present they are actively developing a \" fever chip \" with a wide range of applications .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pan Chao - chi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [26, 40]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Pan explains that in clinical practice , the causes of fever are difficult to quickly diagnose .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A \" fever chip \" bearing the DNA of common fever - causing viruses and bacteria could be used to determine the cause of the fever and the type of pathogen involved would be a valuable tool .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , Pan points out that because of the difficulties in substantially reducing the time needed for sample preparation , the usefulness of such a fever chip is still limited , so that it can not yet be widely promoted .", "entity": [{"entity": "Pan", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [10, 13]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Where the real money is", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , most applications for biochips are in academic research and the development of new pharmaceutical drugs .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Demand for them is growing rapidly .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Johnsee Lee says that according to US market research estimates , the worldwide annual consumption of microarray chips is currently around 250,000 ; in two years this is expected to grow to 1.2 million .", "entity": [{"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [35, 37]}, {"entity": "250,000", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [139, 146]}, {"entity": "two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [152, 161]}, {"entity": "1.2 million", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [190, 201]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Based on a market price per chip of US$ 1,000 , the size of the world market in biochips could grow to US$ 1.2 billion in 2003 , and to US$ 40 billion over the next decade .", "entity": [{"entity": "US$ 1,000", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [36, 45]}, {"entity": "US$ 1.2 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [103, 118]}, {"entity": "2003", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [122, 126]}, {"entity": "US$ 40 billion", "entity_type": "money", "pos": [136, 150]}, {"entity": "the next decade", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [156, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus some people have set their sights on the biochip market , and believe that following Taiwan 's success in the semiconductor field , the island could go on to be a major center for contract manufacture of biochips .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [90, 96]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Be that as it may , the small number of biochip companies so far established in Taiwan still find their market in domestic research establishments and pharmaceuticals manufacturers .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [80, 86]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Although they are also actively developing overseas markets , what interests them most is not biochips per se , nor are they content merely to be contract manufacturers .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" The chips are only a tool , and the big money is not in chip sales .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "What counts is the R&D behind them . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jerry Huang , executive vice president of U - Vision Biotech , reveals that U - Vision , which was set up in September 1999 , has signed a contract with the US company Zen - Bio to jointly develop human adipocyte cDNA microarray chips .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jerry Huang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}, {"entity": "U - Vision Biotech", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [42, 60]}, {"entity": "U - Vision", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [76, 86]}, {"entity": "September 1999", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [109, 123]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [157, 159]}, {"entity": "Zen - Bio", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [168, 177]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Huang states that research in recent years has revealed that adipocytes ( fat cells ) are active regulators of the energy balance in the body , and play an important role in disorders such as obesity , diabetes , osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease .", "entity": [{"entity": "Huang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 5]}, {"entity": "recent years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [30, 42]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus it is hoped that research into human adipocytes can help in the search for drugs and other therapies to treat these disorders .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apart from this , U - Vision is also conducting a one - year bacterial genome project , which aims to map the genome of a certain drug - resistant bacterium as a basis for developing new vaccines and drugs .", "entity": [{"entity": "U - Vision", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [18, 28]}, {"entity": "one - year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [50, 60]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Taiwan Genome Sciences ( TGS ) , which was set up in November 1999 as a joint venture by the Uni-President Enterprises Group , Yuen Foong Yu and Tuntex Groups , only entered the biotechnology fray in April of this year .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan Genome Sciences", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 22]}, {"entity": "TGS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [25, 28]}, {"entity": "November 1999", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [53, 66]}, {"entity": "the Uni-President Enterprises Group", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [89, 124]}, {"entity": "Yuen Foong Yu", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [127, 140]}, {"entity": "Tuntex Groups", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [145, 158]}, {"entity": "April of this year", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [200, 218]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "CEO Andrew Kuo says the investors came to the view that Taiwan needs to develop its biotechnology industries , and therefore they combined their resources to make a long - term investment in the field .", "entity": [{"entity": "Andrew Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [56, 62]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "TGS 's strategy is to invest in a number of US genome research companies , and to sign technology transfer agreements and chip production contracts with them .", "entity": [{"entity": "TGS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "US", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [44, 46]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kuo comments that contract production of chips is merely a service activity and a source of income for the company - TGS 's ultimate goal is in doing R&D work to identify gene sequences as targets for developing new drugs .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "TGS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [117, 120]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Kuo states that at present , the number of known target sequences for disease - treating drugs is only around 500 , but as the human genome is mapped out this number can be expected to increase tenfold .", "entity": [{"entity": "Kuo", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}, {"entity": "500", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [110, 113]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Currently , TGS has its sights set mainly on doing research into diseases which are especially prevalent in Asia , such as liver and stomach cancers .", "entity": [{"entity": "TGS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Asia", "entity_type": "location", "pos": [108, 112]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "A chip revolution", "entity": [{"entity": "A chip revolution", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 17]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , the potential uses for biochips go far beyond the medical applications outlined above .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dr. Johnsee Lee , who as well as heading up the Biomedical Engineering Center is also general director of Union Chemical Laboratories , a research institute under the ITRI umbrella , says that due to biochips ' advantages of miniaturization , parallelism , speed and the ability to reveal the \" big picture , \" they have a very wide range of applications .", "entity": [{"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 15]}, {"entity": "the Biomedical Engineering Center", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [44, 77]}, {"entity": "Union Chemical Laboratories", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [106, 133]}, {"entity": "ITRI", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [167, 171]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "They can not only be used as a research tool in biological , medical and pharmaceutical research and development , and as a clinical diagnostic tool for doing health checks , testing for infectious pathogens , screening blood and so on , but they can also find uses in such areas as defense applications , police forensic work , environmental testing and food testing .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Biochips come in two main types : the microfluidics chip or \" lab - on - a - chip , \" and the microarray chip or \" DNA chip . \"", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Microfluidics chips bring together biotechnology , microelectronics , micromachining and other technologies to integrate the functions of multiple laboratory instruments onto a single chip in miniaturized form .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Meanwhile on microarray chips , biological molecules such as gene segments , oligonucleotides , proteins or antibodies are bound to the chip surface in an array of tiny spots , and a single chip may carry many tens of thousands of such spots .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "BMEC researcher Pan Chao - chi uses the example of blood screening for a blood bank to illustrate the difference between the two kinds of chips .", "entity": [{"entity": "BMEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Pan Chao - chi", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [16, 30]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "To test a blood sample using a microarray chip , the sample must first go through many preparatory steps such as purification , nucleotide extraction , copying , amplification and labeling before being put onto the chip where the \" hybridization \" reaction takes place .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Finally , the results are analyzed using a detection system .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Hence these chips are only suitable for use in the laboratory .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In contrast , with a lab - on - a - chip system , all the laboratory preparation stages will be done on the chip itself , so that the user need only place a drop of blood directly onto the chip to obtain a result .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , microfluidics technology is not yet mature , and no such chips have been launched as commercial products anywhere .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But , says Pan Chao - chih : \" This is the way future biochip development will go . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Pan Chao - chih", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [11, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The poor man 's chip", "entity": [{"entity": "The poor man 's chip", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 20]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Future prospects also seem infinite for microarray chips , which are already widely used in laboratories and research establishments .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Jerry Huang notes that DNA chips are an indispensable research tool in molecular biology .", "entity": [{"entity": "Jerry Huang", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 11]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "On one little biochip , tens of thousands of gene segments can be arranged to simultaneously detect the expression of tens of thousands of genes .", "entity": [{"entity": "one", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [3, 6]}, {"entity": "tens of thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [24, 41]}, {"entity": "tens of thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [118, 135]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In other words , whereas in the past researchers had to investigate each gene individually , today , using biochips , they can obtain test results for tens of thousands of genes at once .", "entity": [{"entity": "tens of thousands", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [151, 168]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In particular , biochips not only can speed the pace of research , but can also replace laboratory animals such as rats and rabbits in many experiments , with tests being carried out directly on human genes on the chip .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus as research tools biochips are not only convenient and quick , but also more humane .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Dr. Konan Peck , an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica 's Institute of Biomedical Sciences ( IBMS ) , says that biochips need to be made more widely available as a molecular biology research tool .", "entity": [{"entity": "Konan Peck", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [4, 14]}, {"entity": "Academia Sinica 's Institute of Biomedical Sciences", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [49, 100]}, {"entity": "IBMS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [103, 107]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "With this in mind , Peck has developed nylon - based biochips which have been called \" the poor man 's biochip , \" since they cost a third less than glass chips .", "entity": [{"entity": "Peck", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [20, 24]}, {"entity": "a third", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [131, 138]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apart from the material itself being cheaper , the nylon chips use a visible - spectrum colorimetric system to display results , so that they can be read using an ordinary optical scanner , which costs 50 - 70 % less than using a special laser detector .", "entity": [{"entity": "50 - 70 %", "entity_type": "percent", "pos": [202, 211]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The nylon membrane biochips currently produced by TGS and U - Vision Biotech are all derived from the technology developed by Konan Peck .", "entity": [{"entity": "TGS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [50, 53]}, {"entity": "U - Vision Biotech", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [58, 76]}, {"entity": "Konan Peck", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [126, 136]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Cutting edge", "entity": [{"entity": "Cutting edge", "entity_type": "work of art", "pos": [0, 12]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Can Taiwan really repeat its success in the semiconductor industry , to become a major production center for biochips ?", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [4, 10]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "BMEC director Johnsee Lee observes that the level of scientific and technical know - how required for biochip production is very high , so that the opportunities for contract manufacture are limited .", "entity": [{"entity": "BMEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [14, 25]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "However , due to Taiwan 's early entry into biochip research and development , and the high state of development of its semiconductor industry , the island is well supplied with relevant technology and skills .", "entity": [{"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [17, 23]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Thus , says Lee , \" Taiwan should have opportunities to enter this field not merely as a contract manufacturer . \"", "entity": [{"entity": "Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [12, 15]}, {"entity": "Taiwan", "entity_type": "geographical social political", "pos": [20, 26]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "The potential and importance of biochips is plain to see , but in this new , interdisciplinary industry , there are still many obstacles and difficulties to overcome .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Apart from the fact that the technology is not yet mature , and that generally accepted , mutually compatible international standards have not yet emerged , the biggest bottleneck for biochips at the moment is the many thousands of patents which have been taken out in the field , which limit the avenues available to each player .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Because this area is a patents minefield , it 's impossible to create a product which from start to finish does n't infringe on anyone else 's patents , \" says Johnsee Lee .", "entity": [{"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [162, 173]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In his view , this problem may be resolved in the future by the exchange of patented technologies between players .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "In other words , at this stage companies must actively carry out research and development , and obtain international patents , in order to have bargaining chips in future negotiations .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "At present , the BMEC has over 10 patents pending in the areas of microfluidics biochips , chip surface processing technology and probe design and applications .", "entity": [{"entity": "BMEC", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [17, 21]}, {"entity": "10", "entity_type": "cardinal", "pos": [31, 33]}], "task": "NER"}
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{"text": "Although at their present stage of development , biochips are already a great help to researchers , they are still far removed from ordinary people 's lives .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But one day they will play an important role in all our lives .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "\" Applications and commercialization are our goal , \" says Johnsee Lee .", "entity": [{"entity": "Johnsee Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [59, 70]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He says that only if research results are commercialized does research produce an economic payback .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Equally , to have a really broad market biochips need to go beyond the laboratory researcher , and into hospitals , clinics and homes , and to individual users .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Lee points out that before biochips will be worth commercializing , sample preparation needs to be made convenient , reading results must be simple and easy , the chips ' speed and accuracy must be high , and their cost must be low .", "entity": [{"entity": "Lee", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [0, 3]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "He predicts that in one to two years , biochips will be suitable for use in supplemental tests , and after around three years for high - throughput screening ; in five years time it should be possible to develop them into general screening tools which will be as easy to use as the pregnancy test kits on the market today .", "entity": [{"entity": "one to two years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [20, 36]}, {"entity": "around three years", "entity_type": "date", "pos": [107, 125]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "IBMS associate research fellow Konan Peck agrees that in the foreseeable future , diagnostic chips will enable everyone to learn their current state of health and know what diseases they may develop in the future .", "entity": [{"entity": "IBMS", "entity_type": "organization", "pos": [0, 4]}, {"entity": "Konan Peck", "entity_type": "person", "pos": [31, 41]}], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "But in a situation where testing technology is ahead of medical treatment technology , the medical problems so discovered may not be treatable .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}
{"text": "Mankind is always challenging his limits , and when , in the near future , biochips lift the veil of many diseases , the next challenge will have only just begun .", "entity": [], "task": "NER"}