There's a lot of complacency in those local units, their facilities are frequently small, understaffed, and usually old and out of date".
Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's leading Cgiar crop research stations, said: "There's a lot of complacency in rich countries about climate change.
"There was a lot of complacency... that has changed now," said Sophia Tickell, who is researching the issue for React, a group of health professionals that is campaigning for more antibiotics to be discovered.
DM: There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy.
He also knew there was a lot of complacency, waste and room for improvement.
For Cotgreave, the most pleasing aspect of the paper is "the fact that there is an explicit acknowledgement that all the other policies depend on the science base and the people who work in it," adding that in the 7 years since the last science White Paper there has been a lot of complacency on the part of policy-makers.
Treasury bond yields, as Capital Economics noted yesterday, are pretty much following the pattern of Japanese yields in the late 1990s.Back then there was a lot of smug complacency towards the Japanese predicament on the part of Western commentators.
He told The House magazine: "We need to face facts, there's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
There has been a lot of progress but there is no complacency," he says.
The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev James Langstaff, warned against "complacency" and said there was "a lot of work still to be done".
