A darling of leading Congressional Republicans, who have promoted his career, Mr. Powell has worked easily with Democrats.
They worked easily with their superiors and their skill at human relations transferred readily from war to politics.
Referring to his training here with the Navy, Colonel Hyde said, "In North Dakota, obviously, you can't work easily with a carrier battle group".
Its Israeli director, Dan Setton, worked easily with his Palestinian subject as he moved around the West Bank, meeting with villagers, checking in on construction projects, and attending rallies.
He works easily with the two-handled draw knife, pulling it smoothly across the sycamore, until he has the basic shape of a spatula.
But Bridgeport also needs a leader who is flexible, who can work easily with others and who is a good listener.
From disputes in New York neighborhoods to high-level conclaves of experts, the tall, amiable Mr. Walsh worked easily with low-income housing advocates like Clara Fox, said Louis Winnick, a senior consultant at the Fund for the City of New York.
(The iPod does, of course, work easily with the MP3 format that's common on free file-swapping services, like KaZaA, that the music industry wants to shut down but that are still much more popular than anything requiring money).
Meanwhile, Apple has to walk a fine line between locking customers into its platform to boost profits while also making sure that its products work easily with other electronic devices.
Described by Politico as "a fair-minded advocate who works easily with both Republicans and Democrats when making policy," he often sided with Republicans when it came to social issues while joining with Democrats on economic ones.
