MSPs also approved the health secretary's programme for tackling hospital acquired infections.

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The aim of this programme was to create a model that would make it possible to forge a link between literacy and the socio-economic integration of neo-literate women by way of a post-literacy training programme to consolidate the literacy skills acquired and prepare them to run micro-projects.

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During this training programme, young africans from different African countries learned how to live together and acquired different skills.

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On July 5th a congressional committee on investigations headed by Darrell Issa, a Republican from California, released details of a sleazy mortgage-assistance programme provided to politicians and others perceived to be influential by Countrywide, a failed mortgage lender acquired during the crisis by Bank of America.

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In 2000 Erste Bank acquired Ceska Sporitelna, the dominant savings bank in the Czech Republic, which had lent recklessly under a flawed privatisation programme.

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