"Secrets of Staying Thin," promised one cover, from 1980; "Those Dreamy Summer Romances," proclaimed another that year.
And as the apparatus of their power gets exposed, these attention-hogging adtech giants are making a dumb show of papering over the myriad ways their platforms pound on people and societies — offering paper-thin promises to 'do better next time — when 'better' is not even close to being enough.
We need signed paper in the form of laws, not paper-thin promises and illusive signs of hope.
"The Momentus® Thin drive promises to help computer makers differentiate on mobile-computing form factor and better compete in the fast-growing markets for thin laptop PCs and netbooks," said Dave Mosley, executive vice president of Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management at Seagate.
This spare, thin novel promises riveting tension throughout.
Every pore is now an overeater!" The upshot: My midsection was more compressed — maybe not "6 to 20 inches slimmer in just 1 hour" thin, as promised on the spa's Web site, but thinner.
Thus, what is most needed is immediate disaster services, along with achievable concrete plans for securing access to sufficient health care and medical resources [ 4, 49], rather than a thin, speculative promise of future health benefits [ 22].
Linked to a digital network, this thin, gray device promises moves the champ can't yet match — high- speed Web browsing, phone calls, shopping and games (once such things are available).
Ipso has been a bit thin on its promised self-started inquiries into areas of coverage thus far.
Details are still pretty thin, with the promise of more to be "revealed in the future," but Nintendo says it will allow players a place to "post and watch videos, as well as other fun features".
Nor, as others had hoped, did they come up with a co-ordinated fiscal boost to counter the deepening global downturn (though they talked of using fiscal measures "to rapid effect").And within days even some of their promises looked thin.
