The brothers, in T-shirts and jeans, nodded in easy agreement.
But there was no such easy agreement in the Quinlan case.
In negotiation, our social comparisons can inspire contentment and pride, prompting easy agreement – or trigger the envy and frustration that can lead to impasse.
"Everything points to Obama doing immigration reform relatively early in this term and I don't think the Democrats are going to just sit back and come to an easy agreement with the Republicans.
So when I stumbled duty-bound on Michael Barone, a conservative columnist, claiming that liberals cocoon more thoroughly than conservatives, to their disadvantage, I recalled and sorely regretted reading things that prevented my easy agreement.
Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's chief labor lawyer, emerged from yesterday's bargaining session sounding downright positive on the issue of revenue sharing, one of the thorniest issues impeding an easy agreement.
The Republicans' hegemony will enable easy agreement on tax cuts financed mainly by higher public borrowing, rather than by facing down special interest lobbies' resistance to the elimination of exemptions and loopholes.
In a practical, immediate way, one sees the limits of the so-called "extended mind" clearly in the mob-made Wikipedia, the perfect product of that new vast, supersized cognition: when there's easy agreement, it's fine, and when there's widespread disagreement on values or facts, as with, say, the origins of capitalism, it's fine, too; you get both sides.
Analysts across the region are doubtful that they will reach an easy agreement on how to respond.This is a shame: the current crisis could arguably be Europe's moment to pull together and speak with one voice, particularly given the holes punched in America's credibility by recent events.
