Spark is also organized so that all the partners can work with a portfolio company, not just the one partner assigned to a company.

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About half of the couples were randomly assigned so that the infected partner went on antiretroviral drugs right away.

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By this time London was also in charge of the KPMG audit practice for the region so any partner that was assigned in his place was also his subordinate.

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That being said, I was psyched when I was assigned to work for a female partner.

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The man, a top partner at a big consulting firm, had been assigned to manage the firm's European operations.

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"I don't know anybody in contemporary American life who has been assigned more tough public jobs than George Mitchell, " says Harold Pachios, Mitchell's former law partner and friend of 45 years.

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