The FT rankings also measured the degree of international mobility enjoyed by students, based on their employment movements since graduation.

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These include Britain's membership of the EC, increased travel abroad, more multi-national companies and international labour mobility.

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In a 2006 Congressional Budget Office analysis, Bill Randolph found that international capital mobility could result in American workers bearing 70 percent of U.S. corporate taxes.

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Promoting international cooperation to facilitate the mobility of artists as well as the flow of cultural goods and services, especially those from the South.

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On Friday, an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission ruled that Microsoft did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility when it made the Xbox.

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