"I haven't got my divorce certificate yet, because the law has a cooling-off period and we are now in that period."

While consumer law gives individuals a cooling-off period after signing a contract, there is no such protection for businesses.

However good it started out, the relationship between Rogen and Franco had a noticeable cooling-off period.

Even now, the government can invoke the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to ask a court to order an 80-day cooling-off period when public health or safety is at risk.

President Joe Biden has so far rebuffed calls by some of country's biggest business groups to use federal power to reopen the ports for 80 days, to provide a cooling-off period for further negotiation.