Labour education spokeswoman Rhona Brankin said the survey showed SNP education policy was failing, and urged Ms Hyslop to "get her finger out".

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"They need to pull their finger out and get a move on, it cannot take eight months, " he said of Downing Street.

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Admittedly, it takes a bit of retraining to get used to -- you'll want to use your finger out of habit -- but it's a wonder Samsung took so long to implement something so crucial.

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"It's been very good to get beyond this finger pointing, and the U.S. saying, 'You should keep those horrible drugs out of the hands of all of our above-average children, ' " said Gil Kerlikowske, head of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy.

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