Yet who can deny, as the geographers complain, that at the frontier of research, abstract economic modelling and the real world have moved dispiritingly far apart?
Phillip Ruffin, the owner of the New Frontier casino at the north end of the Strip, recently tried to buy three acres of land that MGM owns behind his casino for a development he is working on with Donald Trump.
We were certain that this was just a "pie in the sky" concept, but apparently engineers are hard at work designing those futuristic space elevators that promise to eventually whisk cargo and humans to the final frontier at a fraction of the cost of rocket-based delivery systems.
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights brought order to the frontier, but at a serious cost in terms of the amount of process in the system.
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Well OMG, have you taken a look at the Frontier Market stocks of late?
The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a clutch of research efforts at the various Energy Frontier Research Centers in an effort to improve the underlying economics of the technology, which is currently too expensive for mainstream markets.
As investors are generally getting increasingly comfortable with investing in the emerging markets, they might want to take a look at some of the frontier markets.
Find one- to two-foot-long red ristras at Wagner Farm in nearby Corrales, or try the red sauce on huevos rancheros at Frontier Restaurant across from the University of New Mexico.
That intelligence began at the Spanish frontier, at Irun, where a cobbler sat in the doorway of his shop and counted the French battalions coming in and the survivors going out.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation lays the blame at the feet of the phone companies not the government.
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The dreamer side of Bezos wants to be at the frontier.
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Jillian York, director of international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in an e-mail that YouTube and Facebook generally are doing a good job of making sure videos from Syrian activists surface on their platforms.
When I was invited as a U.S. representative to the Asian Development Bank to speak at the 1991 opening of the Mongolian Stock Exchange, I expected a frontier adventure, as the country had just broken free from Russia to form a fledgling democracy.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, EOC makes up 5.81% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN) which is trading up by about 0.4% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ENI makes up 5.34% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN )which is trading lower by about 0.7% on the day Thursday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ENI makes up 5.34% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN )which is trading higher by about 0.1% on the day Tuesday.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ENI makes up 5.34% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN) which is trading lower by about 1.5% on the day Tuesday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, EOC makes up 5.81% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN )which is trading up by about 0.3% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, EOC makes up 5.81% of the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF ( AMEX: FRN )which is trading up by about 0.1% on the day Monday.
Uninspired by a couple of years at Texas Commerce Bank, in 1982 he joined the forerunner to Frontier as vice president of finance.
The prominence given to mayors at the convention is also a reminder that, for all the amber waves of grain and frontier nostalgia, more than four out of five Americans today live in urban areas.
In other words, China is ideally placed to be the world's middleman: close enough to the frontier of innovation to keep up with the latest developments, and skilled at adapting new ideas for the mass market.
The new report also served as the basis of a well-attended workshop on Wednesday addressed by a renowned expert panel at the 2012 Internet Governance Forum Panellist Katitza Rodriguez, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, pointed out how correlations of data could allow inferences about the religious views and sexual orientation of individuals, at a time in history when privacy was still an emerging right.
Southwest was ill-prepared in the early part of the last decade, when jetBlue, AirTran and Frontier began making successful runs at its discount routes.
For example, on June 21st the military-appointed governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier ordered the province's cable television networks to be shut at the behest of Islamic clerics, who said they promoted obscenity.
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Bo'ness is at the eastern end of the Antonine Wall, which was the Roman empire's most northerly frontier.
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Pet-centered amenities are "the next frontier of services, " said Daria Salusbury, a senior vice president at Related, adding that there are no longer any hard weight limits at their buildings.
My point is not that the digital frontier is ungovernable, or should be left a kind of Wild West ruled at gunpoint by vigilantes and posses.
When you get out at the top of a lighthouse and survey the vast, rolling hills of the 18th century New England frontier, Ubisoft has done its job.
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