But many airlines were still working to clear the logjams caused by hundreds of canceled flights over the last two days, and some passengers remained in limbo.
Pamela Anderson, appearing as the genie in "Aladdin", caused logjams on Wimbledon Broadway; David Hasselhoff, after making his panto debut in Wimbledon as Captain Hook, is now playing to a smaller audience in Southend.
A brief strike by west-coast dock workers in 2002 caused logjams that threatened to push the economy back into recession.Happily, further north up the west coast, the port of Tacoma has begun a five-year, $321m expansion to service more of the Chinese container trade.
Improvements to access roads following that event had seemed to solve the problem - until Friday, when people being turned away from campsites caused logjams on the roads.
Although neither New York nor New Jersey experienced the boom-and-bust scenario that dragged down the Florida and Nevada markets, their foreclosure timelines have been longer because of delays in the process, caused by logjams in state courts.
Otherwise, he'd pick up the phone, knock a few heads together and break the bureaucratic logjam that's causing the problem.
True to form, Governor Pataki faulted the Democratic-led State Assembly and its leader, Speaker Sheldon Silver, for what he described as obstructionism that caused this year's logjam and inaction.
The logjam's cause became clear upon entry: each viewer had to ease between two naked performers, Ms. Martin's version of Marina Abramovic's "Imponderabilia," currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
The logjam in the criminal-justice system caused severe overcrowding in the court-detention pens.
But the joint Electromagnetic Remote Sensing and Systems Engineering for Autonomous Systems meeting caused just such a logjam in processing its first-day's attendance of 550 delegates.
