The wait at Terminal 1 at New York's Kennedy International Airport averaged 44 minutes in January for people arriving between 10 and 11 a.m.

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The bag triggered an evacuation of most of the people in the terminal, forcing several hundred passengers to wait outside.

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The wait at the Tom Bradley International Terminal averages 30 minutes.

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One aggrieved investor recounts how his firm had to wait months to get approval to take over a port terminal, because it needed 21 separate entities to sign off.

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