  A remarkable consequence of the AdS/CFT correspondence is the nonperturbative
derivation of dimensional counting rules for hard scattering processes. Using
string/gauge duality we derive the QCD power behavior of light-front Fock-state
hadronic wavefunctions for hard scattering in the large-$r$ region of the AdS
space from the conformal isometries which determine the scaling of string
states as we approach the boundary from the interior of AdS space. The
nonperturbative scaling results are obtained for spin-zero and spin-$\half$
hadrons and are extended to include the orbital angular momentum dependence of
the constituents in the light-front Fock-expansion. The correspondence with
string states is considered for hadronic states of arbitrary orbital angular
momentum for a given hadron of spin $\leq 2$. We examine the implications of
the color configuration of hadronic Fock-states for the QCD structure of
scattering amplitudes at large $N_C$. Quark interchange amplitudes emerge as
the dominant large $N_C$ scattering mechanisms for conformal QCD.
