The Yankees acquired utility man Jose Vizcaino from Los Angeles for Jim Leyritz and he will get a lot of playing time as Knoblauch's defensive replacement, but Knoblauch praised the trade that was made because of him.
TAMPA, Fla .— Faced with the possibility of starting two rookies in their infield, the Yankees brought in some insurance on Tuesday, acquiring utility infielder Brandon Drury from the Arizona Diamondbacks in a three-team trade.
The New York Yankees acquired utility player Dustin Ackley from the Seattle Mariners for a pair of minor leaguers, right-hander Jose Ramirez and outfielder Ramon Flores.
In the short run, virtually all costs are fixed: materials have already been acquired, utilities have been turned on, and the workers have showed up for the day.
Another group, Public Citizen, warned that the repeal of the almost 70-year-old Public Utility Holding Company Act, as proposed in the bill, would allow corporations and investment banks to acquire utilities and could lead to more "Enron-style scandals".
He was there to reassure the commissioners that Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary MidAmerican Energy, which is set to acquire U.S. utility PacifiCorp from Britain's Scottish Power for $5.1 billion, is a long-term investor in the utility sector.
The transaction occurred as Enron was acquiring a utility in Oregon in a deal that, under federal rules, would jeopardize the preferential rate treatment for the wind farms.
But Ms. Baird said that FirstEnergy did not acquire the utility -- Jersey Central Power and Light -- until 2001, and that it was thus unfair to blame it for longstanding maintenance problems.
Under the bill, a new authority, the Long Island Power Authority, would be set up and empowered to acquire the utility, either through negotiations, a stock takeover or condemnation proceedings.
Even as its share price continued a disastrous downward spiral, Vivendi Universal, the troubled French conglomerate, said today that its water subsidiary would spend about $600 million to acquire another utility in southern England.
A spate of merger and acquisition activity bolstered the market in early trading, as a consortium of private equity groups acquired electric utility TXU for $45 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal ever.
