Also, finding out what is happening in the world - we now have first hand access to news, not just through edited newspapers but more than ever through direct contact with real people - through blogs, tweets and videos from political hotspots for instance.
The diversity in the composition of the release team works in both ways: it helps the release team to have first hand insights from a variety of teams or projects, and it helps projects and teams to have first hand access to the release team.
The list of names bridges the political divide, from Margaret Thatcher to George Orwell, and sponsors acquire the opportunity to gain unique first-hand access to the collection of their hero at the museum.
More importantly, by reflecting the cultures in which they evolved, languages are the key to gaining first-hand access to a society's people, way of thought, literature, ideas, values, history and traditions – although more understanding does not always imply greater sympathy or communication.
A major selling point of the Co-op program is the first-hand access to operators still in the game, just further along in a company journey – executives who might not have otherwise had time, like Teich and Rosania, or founders like Instacart cofounder Max Mullen, who is working with them in San Francisco, and Nomad Health cofounder Zander Pease.
It's a fantastic (and fantastically cheap) option that gives you first-hand access to the local people.
Where we have had first-hand access to original specimens, we rely upon our own observations; we therefore do not refer readers to other sources for these data.
He has seen at first hand what access to high-quality education can do, and wants to use technology to make it more widely available.
Its director Jo Glanville said: "Through our work in prisons, we've seen at first hand the necessity of access to learning and literature.
Even though the songstress is from the U.K., she's been a long time support of Planned Parenthood, because she's seen first hand the difference that access to resources can make for women.
She said: "Through our work in prisons, we've seen at first hand the fundamental importance of access to literature.
