Obama supporters accuse the Romney campaign of packing the room with supporters.

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"Compare it to a purely classroom-based subject, like English or history, where you can achieve greater economies of scale by packing out a lecture room, " says Prof Smith, of Swansea University.

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Instead of packing executives into a conference room and brainstorming solutions, Keeney met for one hour each with 19 top people, including the CEO.

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Experts say that reflects a move on the part of many firms to use space and other resources more conservatively, as some have laid off secretaries, hired fewer new associates or are packing more employees into less room.

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While packing my bags this morning in the hotel room, I watched an hour of MSNBC.

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They both went in a great hurry, and when they were gone the house seemed dreadfully quiet and empty, and the children wandered from one room to another and looked at the bits of paper and string on the floors left over from the packing, and not yet cleared up, and wished they had something to do.

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