While the "DJs as rock stars" thing had its moment in the late 90s, the new generation are less complacent, working as hard as they play.
The failure of some senior MPs from all parties to retain their seats in the general election showed that voters were keen to punish parliamentarians for their failings; incumbents may be less complacent in the future.
Other big emerging markets have been less complacent, leaving India in the worst fiscal shape of the lot.If growth slows, so will tax collection and India's vigour may be ebbing already.
If RIMM had been based in a more competitive place -- like Silicon Valley -- where they were a small fish in a big pond, Balsillie and Lazaridis would probably have been less complacent.
For that, I was less thankful than I was complacent.
His indictment of the complacent middle class is less equivocal, however, where he writes of Biafran heroism often happening "below the eye level of the people in this story, in out of the way refugee camps, in the damp tatters, in the hungry and bare-handed courage of the first line of fire".
If classical music faces a present danger, it is less from outright opposition or interference than from indifference and lack of support.Yet it is wrong to be complacent.
"It's a lot less complacent around here, but it's also a lot more exciting," said Patricia A. Rutledge, who has been at Pitney for 28 years and is now director of operations for the small-office division.
The reports sent by the collection's supervisors in Wales were a lot less complacent.
