It makes sense to preserve skills, but, since export demand will not fully recover, many of these people will end up unemployed.
"It would be unwise to renationalise the industry," said the Telegraph, "but bridging loans might sensibly be considered in order to preserve skills and capacity until a buyer is found or the market recovers".
There are other answers: to provide jobs and preserve skills; to sustain what's left in Britain of high-tech shipbuilding and nuclear technology; to make the nation feel more secure in an increasingly dangerous world, where the number of countries with nuclear weapons looks certain to grow.
The cartel's stranglehold threatened to put the American companies out of business, but the United States government had a keen interest in preserving the skills of the watchmakers who worked for those companies: with their mechanical abilities, they had proved useful to the American defense industry.
Matching sequence results were observed only in individual instances, underlining the importance of preserving histological skills in diagnostic routine.
The trust said it bought the Grade II-listed building in June 2011 to save 50 jobs and preserve skills.
To preserve combat skills, the Army arranged for intensive combat training before the deployment.
"He has got to look at how we can preserve the skills base in Portsmouth and the greater Portsmouth area.
These were the mimes, acrobats, dancers, animal trainers, jugglers, wrestlers, minstrels, and storytellers who preserved vital skills that survive in the theatre today.
"We will understand how this network of neurons is connected, how it stores memories, how it preserves the skills a person has and how these connections give rise to emotion".
