Washington's task should be much easier: preserve the values, policies, and institutions which have allowed America to prosper.
A few critical elements in the design of labs, research buildings, or campus can make interaction easier while preserving privacy and comfort for the individual researcher.
Pure cowpox vaccine was not always easy to obtain, nor was it easy to preserve or transmit.
The reagents for the IHC test for the identification of HER2 are relatively inexpensive, the technique is quick, results can be achieved using a conventional light microscope, and the resulting stained slides are easy to preserve and archive.
The distinction between these questions is not always easy to preserve, for they are clearly related, and an answer to one usually has implications for the other.
"It's easy to preserve skin," she says, "but when it comes to an organ it's a very different matter: they decompose no matter what you do".
It is not so easy to preserve one's reputation for pursuing truth and justice at a leading American law school while simultaneously working as a top-billing attorney in service of the nation's richest corporations.
This is the problem with meeting the high and mighty, and perhaps with Washington journalism: once you see important people in the flesh, they become just a little bit human, and it's no longer quite so easy to preserve the dispassionate hatred that, for example, Cheney richly deserves.
Amongst the food products, the food powders are easy to preserve, transport, store, weight and process.
To this end, they should make it easy to preserve large estates undivided, protect the rights and privileges of the nobility, and promote the rule of law.
