Newsweek then wanted "edgy" voices -- so the powers that be bragged about getting Christopher Hitchens to write for them... (Hitchens, no offense, was edgy in like 1993).
He added: "Two goals is a margin that's difficult for them but they'll be thinking about getting the first goal and whether we'll be nervous and edgy and trying to protect what we've got".
In a country where rulers are edgy about the masses getting too much power, the carefully channelled discussions of a deliberative poll could prove a useful safety valve.
France is getting edgy about the CAP, and not without cause.
But ministers on both sides of the water, especially in Sweden, have been getting edgy about the bridge's teething problems.
Still, investors who thronged to the safety of government bonds last year are getting edgy about Treasury's plans to issue $2 trillion in new debt.
Here's something else you can do if you are getting edgy about winners you own: Sell call options against them.
Wall Street is even getting edgy about that paragon of virtue, General Electric, because its bookkeeping may lend itself to artificial smoothing of earnings.
It's hard to say whether this is because the spooks and fortune tellers are getting edgy about specific threats, or if it's meant to ward off threats while the US military rebuilds.
He's edgy and got that slightly risky feel to him," said Coe.
