"It was far more open," said Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who added, "Everyone here fully participated in it".
We're more open," said Ms. Barrett, whose great-uncle was reportedly pushed away with an oar from a Titanic lifeboat with vacant seats.
"Generally, we try not to be discriminatory — we try to be more open," said Sandy Blank, 73, a mathematics professor who has lived here for decades.
"It's a case of an area that was pretty inaccessible becoming more open," says a spokeswoman for Berkeley Homes' Bersted Park.
"There was a day where these conventions were covered much more intensively, there was less to watch on TV and voters were more open," said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama.
"We need to become more social, and we need to become more open," said Jeff Weiner, who as executive vice president for the network division is leading the effort to retool Yahoo's sites and services.
"Obviously, the electoral map has never been more wide open," said Terry Holt, the communications director of the Republican National Committee.
"I have never met a person more open to saying yes to life on an everyday basis than Susan Casey.
Exporters have promoted their case for more open trade, saying Japan risks being left behind in the global economy.
"I and quite a few others are saying we should be much more open," he said.
