Worse, one senior civil servant reckons a "no" vote would bring on "the worst foreign policy crisis for Britain since Suez .Given this, the apparent slothfulness of the "yes" campaign is odd.
A big private-equity investor in Africa says that as a well-off country with a big, urbanised population it would get a lot more start-ups but for the government's prickliness towards outsiders.This, and the bureaucracy's slothfulness, help explain Algeria's lowly position as 152nd of 185 countries in the World Bank's league for the ease of doing business.
According to CD Preston and PH Oswald, the two Cambridge alumni who researched Duport's rules and published them in the Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, his "exuberant language" demonstrates an almost indulgent "understanding of the natural slothfulness and waywardness of youth enjoying a first taste of freedom away from the parental home".
But the academic buzz around the subject isn't just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slothfulness.
I'll admit, at times I use the thesaurus program on my computer, but it always feels like the writerly equivalent of settling for drive-through fast food: convenient yet uninspiring, and perhaps indicative of a regrettable larger slide into slothfulness.
Agriculture Culprit of Potato Famine Over the past 160 years, everything from fungus to slothfulness has been blamed for the Irish potato famine.
However, for all its faults and frequent slothfulness, Lowe's strengths remain undimmed.
The slothfulness spread among us girls like a contagion.
While we may have fared well in the medal tables, we also ranked with the world leaders in slothfulness, according to a global report published in the Lancet, which as well as naming and shaming the worst offenders, demonstrated that physical inactivity was responsible for 9% of premature deaths and 6-106-10%cases of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer worldwide.
But there are no terrifying Morlocks to menace the corpulent Eloi of the Axiom, only evil robot feeder types determined to keep their human charges in contented slothfulness for the rest of eternity.
A life of booze, fags and slothfulness may be enough to earn your doctor's disapproval, but there is one last hope: a repeat prescription of mates and good conversation.
