Part of the problem is that America's big automakers are peddling a future-forward myopia that encourages feel-good complacency...
There's just complacency".
But those good times bred complacency, and Mr. Bernanke's recent comments have caused an abrupt change in perceptions.
I'm sure that varies at international airports, but there's nothing good about fostering complacency that allows for screeners to thoughtlessly regard as "safe" all items that fall within a rigid set of security parameters.
Stylistically, though, the digital deluge has compelled the profession and its practitioners at the "quality" end of the market to shed a good deal of complacency, self-indulgence, and general lack of interest in their audience.
Secretary Shalala said she feared that the good news would invite complacency, discouraging efforts to "modernize Medicare".
That is good, but ground for complacency, which is why the Lib Dems' and Labour's move was overdue.The parties' proposals are much the same.
"We seem to have a couple of good performances and then complacency kicks in and we take our foot of the gas.
It is also unclear how many other senior officials will leave; Mr. Bloomberg has encouraged turnover as a good way to guard against complacency in a third term.
The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the last year of the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. avowedly protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank.
