Word: indexed
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Harvard researchers, led by McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers, have begun a two-year project to tackle that problem. they plan to design a numerical environmental index which would allow those who invest in developing Asian countries to better assess the environmental impact of their loans...
...index would help investors foster economic growth in countries while increasing the environmental standards in those communities...
Harvard researchers will base their environmental quality index on data obtained through collaboration with six countries in Asia: China, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Marshall Islands...
Because the standard of the index is measuredin dollars, government officials, policy makersand investors will be able to incorporate theindex values into their own economic frameworks...
...museum curator handed Schweitzer a faded red ledger. Its 208 pages contained a surprise: the index for a vast archive of documents, photos and military artifacts concerning every American taken, dead or alive, during the Vietnam War. The ``Red Book,'' as it was called by the Vietnamese, turned out to be the key to discovering the fate of some of the 2,211 service members the U.S. listed as missing in action in Indochina. Schweitzer worked quickly to scan the pages, storing the images on a thin magnetic tape in his machine. Back at his hotel, he telexed...