Easy-on-ramps for the happy bystanders, calls to action for the folks higher up on the ladder.
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Now, a host of new technologies are promising to make those on-ramps even faster.
They effectively became the Net's on-ramps in 1995 when the feds closed their own backbone.
The park butts up against two major freeways and off-ramps, and on-ramps are closed into those freeways.
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"We have a great eight-lane freeway where the on-ramps and off-ramps are kind of like dirt, " Levin says.
He says those on-ramps have gotten better in the last decade, as cable and DSL modems have replaced slower dial-up connections.
Zhejiang counters by promoting itself with billboards directing motorists to its on-ramps.
The result, Net2Phone's Gateway, lets the company monitor and tweak its own global network, including 60 Internet on-ramps in 35 countries, from a single location.
Along with the Navy, EDS will screen software and limit internet connections to a half-dozen on-ramps that are monitored and can be cut off fast if attacked.
Along with the Navy, EDS will screen software and limit Internet connections to a half-dozen on-ramps that are monitored, filtered and can be cut off fast if attacked.
According to Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, a Harvard Business Review article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, large numbers of highly qualified women are dropping out of mainstream careers.
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Relationships with colleagues and giving back to the community are more important to women than salary, according to "The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women's Careers, " a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, which was published in the Harvard Business Review last year.
Some counter that the hours gap would shrink if employers offered more family-friendly policies, such as flexible hours and easier on-off ramps for moving in and out of the workforce.
"There won't be any easy off-ramps on this one, " McConnell said last week.
Not surprisingly, Glander makes full use of what's right around him--our spring weekend was heavy on ramps, young peas, sheep's-milk ricotta and hemlock (from the tree, not the poisonous plant).
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