The Andean Common Market\u27s Common Regime for Foreign Investments

The ACM\u27s Common Regime of Treatment of Foreign Capital seems to be a well-balanced set of rules representing an ambitious attempt at reconciling national and regional development interests with the need for foreign capital and technology on terms equitable and remunerative to those who supply them. As in the case of virtually every piece of development legislation based heavily on economic theory and aimed at wholesale change of an existing situation, the Common Regime has plunged into largely uncharted areas in which its ultimate effects are impossible to predict. It is not, however, a lyrical piece of drafting. Because it is serious and because so many other countries will observe its effects, it is extremely important. What Latin America and the Third World do about foreign investment in the future may likely be better measured by observation of the Common Regime and its application than by any other measure available. The Common Regime is almost certainly not so bad as some United States business interests would paint it; likewise, it is almost certainly not so definitive an answer to the problems it contemplates as its drafters, ACM interests, and other defenders might wish. This is all good theater, not unfamiliar to even casual observers of the breast-beating that goes on in inter-American relations. It is worth noting, however, that the Common Regime is, more than perhaps anything else, an invitation to all the participants--domestic and foreign, public and private--in the ACM economies to reason together and forge a mutually beneficial modus vivendi built on disclosure and common concern

The quilt as concept.

This thesis presents an overview of my current work in context with my entire body of painted quilts created over a span of twenty-eight years. From its foundation in Feminism, my work reflects the quilt as an art form and a metaphor for my life and the lives of women of my generation. I have used Semiotics as a tool for organizing and explaining the work. The study of signs and their referents make a chain of signification that helps explain the multilayered and conceptual nature of my work. The paper is divided into an introduction and seven chapters that represent seven concepts in a chain of signification that I use to define a quilt and its relationship to my life\u27s work

Oneota Conodonts

Recently discovered Conodonts in the Oneota formation of Iowa are illustrated and their stratigraphic significance is discussed

Conodont Zonation of the Early Upper Devonian in Eastern Iowa

The type section of the Sweetland Creek Shale in Muscatine County has yielded a sequence of five distinct conodont faunas which correspond almost exactly to a zonation of the Upper Devonian Frasnian Stage by Ziegler (1962 b) in the Rhineland. In addition, the nearby Campbell\u27s Run section has produced the lower three faunas. The Sweetland Creek is equivalent in part to the Independence Formation, and is regarded as representing the southeastern extension of that unit in its true stratigraphic position above the Cedar Valley Formation