Tens of thousands of blighted properties, a lack of affordable housing and thin public services continue to plague the city.
Because Google has more than 100,000 miles of subterranean fiber optic cables (some of which are remarkably thin), their services are highly susceptible to curious sharks.
Seth Terkper, a canny technocrat who became finance minister this year, so far proposes to thin the civil service only by "natural attrition" as people retire.
CHEFS have more time and kitchen help than home cooks do, but there is only so much space and time, and labor can be stretched thin during meal service.
"This will be a more measured roll out," Donovan said, of the new thin client-based service.
Beholden to equipment makers, they sent off film in envelopes and returned prints days later, offering a thin range of service and price.
The thin client-based service – as this product was referred to as by the exec – would be the next step in transitioning traditional pay TV customers to the streaming service, DirecTV Now.
These companies make a lot less noise today as they get down to the business of building scale on what are relatively thin margins for service — iZettle, for example, takes a fee of between 2.75% and 1% on each transaction.
The school goes, that is usually the first absence; then the shop closes, and, with it, the post office; the bus service thins to a dawn trickle, and the church becomes part of a wistful little empire of four, five or six churches on which a vicar calls like a flying doctor.
With margins on many online transactions remaining thin to keep services competitive and more compelling to use than legacy payment systems, the business of e-commerce remains one of scale.
