The Atlantic surfclam, Spisula solidissima (Dillwyn), is broadly distributed in sandy sediments of the western North Atlantic between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Mexico. In the United States, a substantial commercial fishery between Long Island and Cape Hatteras harvests offshore populations of one subspecies, S. s. solidissima. A smaller coastal form, S. s. similis Say (also known...

This paper examines efforts by the United Arab Emirates and the other Arab Gulf States to use their oil wealth to ‘‘import’’ the human capital necessary to diversify their economies beyond oil. It explores how new forms of development capacity, necessary to create and sustain new industries in the Gulf, are acquired in the context of a global labor market. By studying the circulation and absorp...

after the establishment of the opec, oil-rich countries of the third world, which were in struggle with big petroleum companies since the 1950s, tried to use oil as a means for achieving their economic and political goals. as an example, the opec raised the price of petroleum in 1973 and 1974 to unprecedent levels. concurrent with these conditions, richard nixon, then the president of the unite...