That more competition leads to lower prices is basic economics, but the complacency in Washington about this monopolistic (or, at best, duopolistic) situation is long-standing and, until last week, seemed unlikely to shift.
To shy away from that, I think, is irresponsible – in part because it would encourage complacency but also from the basic truth-telling level.
At the same time, U.S. corporate complacency in world markets choked the basic-research binge indulged in by technologically oriented corporations after World War II.
Residents in Rome are seen as having relied for too long on the city's innate beauty and greatness, which has at times lulled Rome into a sense of complacency about the importance of maintaining its basic infrastructure and services.
A related dimension to this complacency syndrome is instinctive acceptance of the basic tenets underlying American foreign policy.
His plays reverberated with such 20th-century questions as the status of the individual in a community, the likelihood of material wealth leading to spiritual complacency, and the potential for improvement in the basic nature of man.
Part of the explanation for this lack of implementation of the basic principles of activation in Ireland was due to the complacency that came from a period in which the economy experienced full employment for almost a decade.
For all the media frenzy, the complacency of economists, the trumpets announcing a new era, Europe does not want to understand the basic situation it is in.
I cry for you Europa For all the media frenzy, the complacency of economists, the trumpets announcing a new era, Europe does not want to understand the basic situation it is in.
This complacency, born of a cradle-to-grave security, may undermine initiative and competitiveness, but it is also the basic bond between the people and the state.
