While Obama was talking, Romney more frequently had an openness in his visage, often with a slight smile on his face and very soft eye contact. (Some may view the smile as a smirk, but that is the confirmation bias at play.) I noticed this frequently in the Republican presidential debates.
As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the Chinese and the International Olympic Committee had promised more openness for the games.
Prior to being elevated to a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003, when he became only the third Scot to reach the rank since the Reformation, he had expressed his openness to a debate on issues like priestly celibacy, women priests and contraception within the church.
In Beijing, meanwhile, Mr Hu has disappointed reformers whose hopes had been raised by a new openness in the wake of SARS. China had been so humiliated by the criticism it endured for initially denying the extent of the danger posed by the disease (and thus hastening its spread) that the government declared a new policy of transparency in matters of public health.
The Health Minister Edwina Hart said that the recent reorganisation of local health boards had led to more openness, as there were now less bodies to deal with.
He said an initial push in the mid-1990s by some companies to increase openness and transparency had failed.
The Women's National Basketball Association has had its share of milestones and openness as far as gays are concerned.
There had to be a kind of openness on the other side for me to have gotten hired in the first place.
The Women's National Basketball Association, the women's pro league, has had its share of milestones and openness as far as gays are concerned.
It had to be a person who showed openness to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
In reaching its recommendations, the panel agreed attitudes towards the amount of accountability and openness expected in public life had changed dramatically since the 1960s.
So if it had not been for the freedom and the openness that the Internet allows, Google wouldn't exist.
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Since 2008, when SAC's biggest funds had their only money-losing year, the firm had emphasized to investors that it was increasing its openness and transparency with clients.
Eager to demonstrate their openness to changes, Democrats stressed that they had agreed to a number of Republican proposals.
From the beginning of the administration, as you know, the President has signaled an openness to engagement with governments who have not had relations with the United States, provided that we see those governments taking steps to change course and to respect the rights of their citizens.
But Mr Stepashin's assurances of good government and openness would have carried more weight if his entourage had not included the notorious Yevgeny Nazdratenko.
Economically, London's openness to the rest of the world seems to have had four broad effects.
An analyst on Saudi-owned Al Arabiya channel observed Ahmadinejad had toned down his adversarial rhetoric towards the West and showed signs of openness.
Such openness would be deadly for profits, making online firms wish they had never bothered.
Though her ambition always tolled in the background, she had come to respect him, for his unstudied fairness, his gaiety, his integrity and openness, which was as plain and light and valuable as a metal unknown in her world.
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