Word: firsthand
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Matt and Randall have seen firsthand the issues and challenges that face students and student groups. With their impressive record of calling for and carrying out reforms, they are the ideal duo to lead the UC. We are proud to call Matt and Randall our friends, and sincerely hope to call them the President and Vice-President of the Undergraduate Council next year...
Along with relief, I now had another "D," Diabetes, to add to my non-healing mnemonic. Am I older but wiser? Hardly. To say we understand the healing miracle, even having read the great scientists who've spent their lives learning about it, even having studied it firsthand, is to say we haven't really thought about...
...student, involvement in the events has been less of a choice. Samad Khurram ’09, a Harvard undergraduate taking time off in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has witnessed the events firsthand, and has protested against President Pervez Musharraf’s government...
...about Rain Man. I think that now as a studio [head] and someone who has studied the business, there are times where--the studio would want to try to devalue the artist and communicate that to other people. But in business reality, that's not true, because I know firsthand in dealing with this that you have to recognize market value of artists...
...Statistics are never as visceral as firsthand experience. It’s one thing to know that 300 million Chinese adults are either tobacco smokers or are exposed to cigarette smoke on a daily basis, with 40 percent of nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke. It’s another thing to walk inside any Internet café—which is the only affordable way to access the Internet for most Chinese—and choke from all the tobacco constantly being devoured by computer game addicts. Urban environments were so inundated with smoke that I could smell tobacco...