"The past two days have been very easy, just negotiating and talking," Mr. Karzai said, making light of the intense politicking of the past 48 hours, as he postponed the state visit to Pakistan and delayed selecting his running mates until the deadline for nominations on Monday.
He also notes that such influence is more decisive in local campaigns, where turnout is low, than in national ones.Even if they fail to elect "their" candidates, public-sector unions have a relatively easy time negotiating with politicians.
But it was no easy matter negotiating with the chairman of Vornado, Steven Roth, who wanted a building with a luxury hotel, condominiums and a limited amount of office space.
If he waits until the presidential elections in 2005, in which Mrs Kumaratunga, having reached the limit of her term, cannot stand, he may well inherit her powers.The Tigers, too, are probably calculating that Mr Wickremesinghe will be the easier negotiating partner.
They may have an easier time negotiating than some of our elected officials because, as Mr. Buffett likes to say, "My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror".
If the Yankees are able to reach an agreement with the Cubs on players for Sosa, the baseball officials say, they will have an easier time negotiating a contract extension with Sosa than they have had with Gonzalez.
As a bright-voiced high lyric soprano, Ms. Christy had an easier time negotiating the sustained upper notes of the young Jiang's music, though she, too, was taxed unnecessarily.
Some Trump allies believe that he will have an easier time negotiating a longer-term deal with her, offering to agree to some Democratic priorities in return for his wall.
Not only have the terms of selling magazines on the Nook Color been comparatively easy to negotiate, but the process of creating electronic versions of magazines is also far easier and less expensive than it is to create an iPad edition.
The freeways have never been so easy to negotiate.
