ready time

And, just like in Rochester, my getting ready time was downright speedy.

Most models give a countdown in minutes to the "ready time," or beep when done.

Slack time is defined as the temporal difference between the deadline, the ready time and the run time.

It includes logistics time, ready time, and waiting or administrative downtime, and both preventive and corrective maintenance downtime.

Since the 1980s, higher-end electric rice cookers have used microprocessors to control the cooking process, often incorporating a memory and electronic timer that can be used to set the desired "ready time".

Mr. Bewkes and Mr. Logan, meanwhile, put in place new management teams and strategies at America Online and Turner Broadcasting System, readied Time Warner Cable for a public listing and sought to expand markets for the company's film and television programming.