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complacent

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We can’t be complacent when nearly half our high school seniors have “below basic” skills in math, and reading skills across the board are 10 points lower than they were 30 years ago.

And Kansas City’s Jeffrey Schmid, who dissented in October in favor of no cut, said on Friday, “I don’t think we have room to be complacent,” on price increases.

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Under cross-examination, he accepted he forgot to switch on his body-worn camera and did not use his whistle as he approached the pedestrian crossing but insisted he had not been complacent that day.

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Tina McKenzie, policy chair of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the increase in unemployment and drop in the number of people on payroll shows the government's "complacent attitude to jobs and businesses".

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Observers have long shrugged off the danger with the complacent idea that students will see through their professors’ foolishness—if not right away, then when they enter the “real world.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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