Word: firsthand
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...recall the arrangements, but I'm certain that everything was done with the intent of adhering to the law. I participated in many trips involving Congressmen, their staffs and other policymakers over the years. Trips are an essential way for members of Congress and others to get firsthand knowledge of important issues and regions around the world...
Last year, as a junior loitering on campus during Commencement, I got to see the benefits of the annual fund drive firsthand. Mather, my house, had placed second in Senior Gift’s inter-house competition, with 83 percent of seniors participating. The Class of 2004 celebrated their win with a Beirut barbecue in the courtyard, financed by the cash prize they’d gotten in exchange for giving so much...
...Hence the caution of Western businesses like Dixons. "The politics do concern us," says Grant Winterton, Coca-Cola's regional manager for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The beverage titan knows the risks firsthand. Coca-Cola invested $800 million in the 1990s to build 11 plants in Russia and an extensive distribution system. The company's fortunes took a severe knock in 1998, when Russia was hit by a debt crisis and massive devaluation of its currency. But since then Coca-Cola's Russian operations have grown back to profitability, Winterton says, and it currently has half of Russia...
...next three, they learn how to lead." Management skills are taught so rigorously that a group of visiting professors from the Harvard Business School, after sitting in on classes last year, pronounced their own institution to be "the West Point of capitalism." Cadets learn leadership firsthand by giving orders to those they outrank in the cadet chain of command--their classmates as well as plebes. "It isn't easy ordering your roommate to shine his shoes," shrugs one cadet sergeant. "But you have...
Many CIA officials agree that Yurchenko's handlers failed to establish a strong bond with their client. Though few believe Yurchenko took away any U.S. secrets other than a firsthand account of how the CIA conducts debriefings, the episode is still deeply embarrassing to Casey, who acted as the defector's top case officer and wrote personal memos about him to Reagan. Though the CIA plans to complete an internal inquiry about what went wrong in about six weeks, there are no White House plans for a separate investigation. Casey, however, is certain to face tough grilling on the Hill...