Word: firm
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...honors economics concentrator with plans to graduate in January, Martin has worked 50-60 hours each week since the beginning of his junior year at Advent International Corporation, a global private equity firm based in Boston which manages $3 billion invested in more than 400 companies...
After learning that a Harvard graduate had a connection with a partner at the firm, Martin called the partner 40 times in one month for an interview, only to be told that the firm did not employ interns. After placing dozens of calls with another partner in the firm, he was again told there was not enough work for an intern...
Martin disconnected his phone and headed to the firm's offices in Boston that week, introducing himself to everyone as the new intern...
Last week, he was offered a full-time position as the youngest associate in the firm and is working on recommending a student for the newly established internship position...
...from him anyway because the mistrust of authority runs that deep. But have him we will, quite soon, since freedom and democracy are dirty words in Russia today. Most Russians have never realized that freedom requires responsibility, that it demands visceral, spiritual discipline. Freedom can be based only on firm ethical and legal norms, and these norms have to be hammered out and strengthened for centuries by those who fought for freedom. But we received our freedom as a gift from our masters' hands. Ten years ago, Russia swore by freedom--and measured its worth by the availability of sausage...