He enjoyed easy access to the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, including meetings with the president himself.
For much of that period the markets have enjoyed easy money and lashings of liquidity.
A simple explanation is that Mediterranean countries enjoyed easy "catch-up" growth by importing technology.
But amateurs are hardly less so: film buffs have enjoyed easy access to their canon since the V.H.S. era.
Thanks to today's abundant liquidity, emerging economies have enjoyed easy access to private capital and hence no need for the IMF.
Tony Blair supported his work and Mr Woodhead enjoyed easy access to the new prime minister, of whom he is, as one friend testifies, a "warm admirer".
As quartermaster at Fort Vancouver, he enjoyed easy access to whiskey and, according to his colleague Lt. Henry Hodges, "would perhaps go on two or three sprees a year".
Only in the late 20th century did it make its return, playing to younger, post-Thatcher elites, who also enjoyed easy drama, and dressing up in dickie-bows.
The Camden Town branch boasted "two tables, a typewriter, a gramophone and a couple of banjos", while the centre in Paddington enjoyed easy chairs, committee rooms and a buffet.
Songs (cheap, small, repeatedly enjoyed, easy to rip from CDs) are not the same as e-books (big, generally enjoyed only once or twice, much more difficult to scan from printed books).
