Meanwhile, the benefits of NBCUniversal to Comcast may track improvements to the overall economy and more specific turnaround strategies implemented since the joint venture was first launched.

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Since then UNESCO and CAS have implemented a large series of joint activities with the aim of bringing the benefits of space technologies to developing Member States of UNESCO.

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The document didn't commit Vermont or Quebec to any specific actions, but it said the details of the agreement would be implemented using a mechanism set up by a similar 2003 agreement that created a Joint Vermont-Quebec Committee.

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