It was an easy compromise.
There is no easy compromise between STV and FPTP.
Or maybe it is because trees, in the scheme of development, provide an easy compromise.
But the Keystone decision, which is technically a State Department prerogative but will be decided by the president himself, defies easy compromise.
But Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas about the details, and the philosophical gulf between them does not lend itself to easy compromise.
He is concerned that, with all the attention paid to needle exchange over the past year, it might seem an easy compromise to drop the pharmacy deregulation bill.
The frenetic negotiations to avert a government shutdown seem largely focused not on dollars and cents, where the two sides are not all that far apart, but on policy issues, primarily abortion and environmental regulations, that defy easy compromise.
It was not an easy compromise, since it cut into time spent with his daughters, Jennifer, 16, Ashley, 13, and Lyndsey, 9. "The main thing in his life was his children," Mrs. Herold said.
Although the two sides seem close enough on the percentages for easy compromise, principle and politics loom large: Republicans oppose raising rates as a matter of ideology, saying that it kills jobs, and the president insists that he will not keep the Bush-era rates on income above roughly $250,000 after two campaigns in which he vowed to return them to the levels of the Clinton years.
