Levin's statement, the most forceful call for leadership change in Iraq from a U.S. elected official, comes as about two dozen lawmakers are traveling to Iraq during Congress's August break to glean firsthand assessments before receiving a progress report next month from Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander there, and Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador.
But it's hard to dismiss patterns I've noticed firsthand and the overlapping assessments offered by black acquaintances from the U.S. to Zimbabwe to South Africa itself.
Those limitations mean that owners cannot see exactly how their properties' values were determined until an appeal is well under way — a situation that creates contention and requires time-consuming efforts to find information elsewhere (frustrations I experienced firsthand when I appealed my assessment, and won).
He based that assessment in part on firsthand experience in ThyssenKrupp elevators at the supertall Shanghai World Financial Center.
The State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, said Ms. Frazer had made the assessment based on "her firsthand view of the situation," but did not say whether the department would adopt her use of the term ethnic cleansing.
It did not contest Holder's point that "I also know firsthand what so many studies and assessments have shown -- that making voter registration easier is not likely, by itself, to make our elections more susceptible to fraud".
A good portion of my teaching experience occurred before the new age of testing, and I have seen firsthand the difference that a focus on assessment makes.
As Investars conducted its analysis, Mr. Spitzer said, he learned firsthand how hard it is for investors to make an assessment of how analysts' recommendations perform.
Without workplace-based educational methods such as bedside rounds, the " failure(s) to obtain data or firsthand observations of a trainee's performance" greatly limits the quality of assessment and feedback, and subsequently, trainee development [ 14].
