He left a megachurch, he said, because he felt no community at the slick services.
But today, of course, we have more opportunities than ever to outsource our tasks — large and small — using super slick services from TaskRabbit, Exec, and Postmates, while car service Uber seems to be experimenting with delivery logistics too.
Slick service and hard running and support, the man's an all-action footy player and up there with Blake Austin for Most Dangerous Six.
Others will be less spooked by the idea, and will appreciate this slick service from Google offering up to 15GB of storage.
McDonald's will have 35 restaurants in South Africa by the end of 1997, and will continue to pump money into the country after that.In general, McDonald's seems to have scored well against its rivals in two areas: slick service and a studied appeal to children.
Chuck in slick service, decent à la carte prices and a bargain lunch and pre-theatre set menu (the usual rider applies - restaurants often hike the prices by 30% the moment the last critic is out the door), and I ought to be raving about Arbutus along with my so-called rivals.
Fluther, a slick service that lets you outsource your questions to other members on the web, has closed a $600k round of seed funding from some of Silicon Valley's most notable investors.
Although at the time there was some concern that GrandCentral would enter (and possibly never emerge from) what Slate's Farhad Manjoo called the "Google Black Hole," it's clear that Google has made a healthy investment creating a slick service with plenty of interesting features.
It's a slick service that is, so far, very successful, supporting a staff of 69 (up from 18 in 2010!).
One of their slickest services is to work as the icefall doctors, installing ladders and ropes over crevasses in the treacherous Khumbu Icefall, a groaning, moving glacier that must be climbed through to get to the mountain.
The two companies also want to cater to a younger generation of lawyers accustomed to slick Web services and the search interfaces presented by companies like Google and Microsoft.
