'But what have you got?' he asks this quiet, complacent WASP.
The striving, inventive chasers at Pepsi spotted the current fashion for health faster than did complacent Coke (see article).
The famed quality guru W Edwards Deming helped Toyota set up its manufacturing methods after being spurned by complacent US auto makers.
Insiders, who have grown up within the complacent BBC management culture, will find it particularly hard to make the changes needed.
First proposed in 1941, and kept alive ever since by a complacent Congress, the Yazoo Pumps may well be the most daft in a long line of environmentally destructive schemes undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers at Congress's request.
The fourth estate is somewhat whitewashed, the disrespect for politicians marked but restrained (the PM, heard on radio, is a pompous, complacent Macmillan soundalike), and the special effects now invite the epithet "impressively stylised".
Born in 1933 in Kansas, Mr. Conner was 12 when Hiroshima was bombed, and draft age when the Korean War brought the bomb scare and bomb shelters home to a complacent America.
It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.
A good number of right-leaning think tanks were founded in the 1970s and 80s in large part to give conservative and libertarian intellectuals, who had struggled to find a place in academia and the mainstream media, a secure institutional perch from which to preach the gospel of "fusionist" conservatism to both the public and the complacent Republican Party establishment.
Commenting on the figures, Prof Nigel Hunt, dean of faculty of dental surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "We should not be complacent, Public Health England's survey still shows that almost a quarter of children in this age group suffer from visible tooth decay which is almost entirely preventable.
