The notion of a frontier waiting to be explored is central to LOT-EK's vision, and in all cases, that frontier is an urban one.
"You're no good anymore for advancing that frontier, waiting for somebody else to come behind you who doesn't have God on the brain and who says: 'That's a really cool problem.
I am a country magistrate, a responsible official in the service of the Empire, serving out my days on this lazy frontier, waiting to retire.
We were recently standing with luggage at the curb in a certain frontier town waiting to get to the station.
Impact investment is a trillion dollar frontier market waiting for the pioneers to capture the highest margins in the increasingly competitive landscape for asset management growth and market share.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles, away thousands of armed men and boys gathered along the northwestern frontier to wait for a signal from Taliban leaders to cross and join them in fighting the Americans and Northern Alliance.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, thousands of armed men and boys gathered along the north-western frontier to wait for a signal from Taliban leaders to cross and join them in fighting the Americans and Northern Alliance.
The result is that hundreds of thousands of highly qualified people entrepreneurs who want to start companies, doctors who want to save lives, scientists who want to explore the frontiers of knowledge are kept waiting on the spin of a roulette wheel and then, more often than not, denied the chance to work in the United States.This is a policy of national self-sabotage.
For example, white Americans persist in imagining the history of the "frontier" as empty land waiting to be settled, erasing the memory of repeated ethnic cleansing of Native Americans (Mills 2007).
The MTP was founded on the idea that post-recession America is a land of "new frontiers" and its problems are just waiting to be settled by a new generation of "pioneers".
