The skilled technicians who look after our arsenal today are the ones who will safely dismantle it tomorrow.

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He took on hundreds of minimally skilled technicians and let his headquarters staff swell to 900, or 16% of Meitec's total payroll.

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We have a company of consulting engineers that were formally Delphi related, which is some of the highest-skilled technicians in the world.

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The process also requires highly skilled technicians who know how to operate cloud measurement equipment in deciding when, where and how to disperse the pellets to yield maximum results.

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The union said it believed BT was bringing highly skilled technicians from India to work in the UK at some substantially lower rates of pay than comparable British workers.

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By moving forward with that, we cannot only stop this hemorrhaging of skilled technicians and scientists, but can address the ongoing accumulation of technical anomalies within our stockpile, the inevitable result of keeping these weapons in service long beyond their service life.

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That safety, and indeed, the reliability and credibility of the nuclear deterrent will, accordingly, rely ever more critically on a dwindling number of highly skilled scientists, engineers and technicians in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.

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