These are comfortable doctrines of passivity, well suited to these comfortable and complacent times.
One of the more interesting is investor sentiment, which has been made very bullish and complacent by the September rally.
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But in some areas we are, I fear, running the risk of becoming rather lazy and complacent in our thinking.
True, the bid from Olivetti was so outrageous as to seem unbelievable, but Telecom Italia's defence has been slow and complacent.
In countries such as Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia this could prove salutary, if it unseats old and complacent politicians and forces much-needed change.
But, judged on their performance in the dialogues at least, Miss Megawati appears by turns hapless and complacent, while Mr Susilo has an air of gravity and confidence.
If something is ever going to take the place of Facebook once the company gets so big and complacent that it loses focus, it will probably be something built on top of Facebook.
The core message was that Avis, because it was No. 2, worked that much harder to earn its business, with the implication being that the No. 1 market leader (Hertz) just might be a little lazy and complacent, and not care for each customer as much as Avis.
While its true that major free cash flow generators like Microsoft and Apple rest complacent and keep tens of billions in nearly confiscatory money market paper, Google is much more proactive on cash acquisitions like YouTube and Double-Click.
Many on the right will hate that message and see it as complacent and insufficiently militant.
But Gov Jindal has made a start confronting his shocked, and rather complacent, party.
Extremely minimal interest rates on taxable investments keep the public and institutions complacent, their portfolios intact.
It might not be enough and the complacent investor may not know how to discern if they are doing enough.
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Lawrence, and above all Melville, but not Don DeLillo, John Updike, Julian Barnes and others, who are all too tidy, controlling, and existentially complacent.
The problem with many corporations these days is that executives, with their exorbitant salaries, have lost touch with marketplace realities and grown complacent in their own reality shows.
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The primary risk for Apple (and Apple investors) is that the company becomes complacent and assumes customer loyalty.
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The VIX An options-based measure of the forecast for volatility in the stock market, the VIX fell to a relatively low of 15 in April of 2010 and 2011, suggesting that investors may have become too complacent and risk being surprised by a negative event.
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And what good does any of this do if the auditors, who have a duty to the shareholders to stand up to the company executives and complicit or complacent regulators before the financial statements are final and ready to sign, just stand there and take it?
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After almost a decade of fast growth, the leadership of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Ciena Corp ( CIEN), JDS Uniphase ( JDSU), Corning ( GLW) and Ariba Inc. ( ARBA), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE: ALU) became complacent and arrogant with success, setting the stage for the eventual slow-down and downfall to irrelevance.
Also, as we saw with Microsoft and are now seeing with Google, platform companies can either become complacent and not regularly upgrade their technology, or they get distracted with side projects that also draw resources from their core offering.
And it's absolutely critical that those of us who are not in the Bush administration not become complacent and somehow think that we've done our job.
They are going to finally crack the complacent and fat corporate culture that still predominates.
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Harold Wilson's attempts to retain power in 1970 have been described as complacent and low key.
One interesting online PSA asserts that the 18-24 demographic is particularly complacent and lax.
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And you can be certain they came into another game cocky, complacent, and unprepared.
Feeling complacent and unfulfilled, Scott-Young left Violator and started her own film production company, Monami Entertainment.
Just like Circuit City, the company became complacent and a bit too-sure of itself.
The study should be mandatory reading for the stubborn, complacent and squabbling politicians of eastern Europe.
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