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First baseman Mike Lamb, who batted .236 last season and helped the Astros reach the World Series, agreed to a $1.7-million, one-year contract with the club…. For Orange County natives Parker and Risley, housecleaning was also a means to exert control over their lives and escape from less dire but nonetheless difficult situations. That could hurt both parties, but Republicans have the most to lose because they are in the majority and may bear the brunt of voters’ wrath.In Indiana’s Republican primary, a political neophyte defeated the state Senate president, a 36-year veteran who had been criticized for championing a generous health insurance perk for legislators.A far broader anti-incumbent sweep came in Pennsylvania, where 61 state legislators faced primary challenges last week. I just wanted, simply as an American citizen, the right to build on my property. “The problem is, we don’t have the money.”He spoke Wednesday after agency planners presented a report on the rising costs.David Fleming, another board member, said the agency faced some “tough choices” ahead.Twelve major freeway improvement projects are underway in Los Angeles County and have combinations of local, state and federal funding. hospital chain, for $21.3 billion helped lift the total volume of deals so far this year to $373 billion, financial data provider Dealogic said Tuesday.That’s already higher than the full-year total for 2005 and higher than any other year on record.The rise in private equity-backed deals comes as the volume of global mergers and acquisitions has risen to $2.18 trillion year to date, which tops the $2.13 trillion notched up during the same period in 2000 at the height of the Internet boom, Dealogic data show.Private equity firms typically buy struggling or undervalued companies, restructure them and sell or take them public later, keeping a slice of any profit and giving the rest to the private equity firms’ investors — major financial institutions, public pension funds and endowments, and wealthy individuals.Investors have poured billions of dollars into private equity firms in recent years in search of better returns than stocks and bonds can provide.In the last several weeks, three of the world’s largest private equity firms — Permira and Cinven, both based in Europe, and New York-based Blackstone Group — have cumulatively raised nearly $37 billion in capital, with Blackstone’s $15.6-billion fund the largest pool of capital ever raised by a buyout firm.With private equity investors awash in money, experts predict even larger deals than the HCA acquisition to come..

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