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Today's newspaper:

About 500 major San Francisco and Silicon Valley donors greeted her comments with wild cheers, energy that underscored their belief that Kerry's performances in the recent three debates have given him a solid chance at victory.

How is ENERGY connected to the prior sentence?

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I would say it's a shorter form of: About 500 major San Francisco and Silicon Valley donors greeted her comments with wild cheers full of energy that underscored their belief that Kerry's performances in the recent three debates have given him a solid chance at victory. or ... with wild cheers which showed the great amount of energy that underscored ...

  • I would say it's a shorter form of: About 500 major San Francisco and Silicon Valley donors greeted her comments with wild cheers full of energy that underscored their belief that Kerry's performances in the recent three debates have given him a solid chance at victory.
  • or ...
  • with wild cheers which showed the great amount of energy that underscored ...
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I would say it's a shorter form of:

About 500 major San Francisco and Silicon Valley donors greeted her comments with wild cheers full of energy that underscored their belief that Kerry's performances in the recent three debates have given him a solid chance at victory.

or

... with wild cheers which showed the great amount of energy that underscored ..

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