With the coming of the Great Depression, most of the country followed, with several complacent business-focused Republican presidencies.
In this way the G20 can show their resolve to end the complacent, business-as-usual approach and give meaning to the OECD Action Plan on "Base Erosion and Profit Shifting" endorsed at last year's summit in Saint Petersburg.
Once-complacent businesses, stung by debilitating cyberattacks at Target Corp., JPMorgan Chase Co. and other well-known companies, are on a cyberattack insurance shopping spree.
Two people close to the industry, who declined to be identified, said publishers might be complacent because business is good and because piracy is far more prevalent in PC-based games, a declining business, than with consoles.
"We should take care not to be too complacent," she told business leaders at the European Policy Centre, adding that if Europe wanted to lead on exporting such technology, it must not "sit on its hands".
Whereas file-sharing took out complacent, stale music business executives one by one, Uber, and services like it, are shining a long-awaited and desperately-needed light on the monopoly taxi companies have over us sorry pedestrians who've, up 'til now, had no choice, but to haggle, argue and fist fight just to travel the three or so miles from New York to New Jersey, and vice versa.
But the BBC has no business being complacent.
Complacent managers allowed its business to stagnate and fall far behind those of its rivals.
I wouldn't say I was complacent, but the actual business of getting from A to B as fast as I could went out the window.
After Warburg died in 1982, his bank embarked on ill-judged expansions while becoming complacent in its core businesses.
