At the same time, a jittery air travel system coped with a new scare.
Now it is back at the front line of gargantuan bail-out packages, wrangling over government spending and tax reform, and attempts to stop sovereign defaults further disturbing the jittery global financial system.
John Tomsett's voice is one of reason and sanity in a system that is jittery beyond measure.
Some producers are also increasingly jittery about the Hungarian rebate system itself, since it is essentially financed by Hungarian companies, many of which have become unprofitable during a steep economic downturn and may no longer be able to subsidize foreign production.
Other features include an advanced Super Shake-Free system for the jittery types like me.
The prospect of such a system has made Russia jittery, China suspicious and America's staunchest European allies resentful.
Down by the river, at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and scores of other jittery firms, the engines of the financial system were seizing up, as balky as the 1989 Plymouth Voyager Mr. Riggsbee recently ditched.
But the new helmet, being developed by Rockwell Collins and Israel's Elbit Systems, ran into problems, including jittery images, delays in data signals and a green glow that made using its night vision features difficult.
And despite the appeal to investors to buy stocks as a patriotic duty, financial markets, the modern economy's central nervous system, are almost sure to remain jittery if not depressed.
The announcement of the partial nationalization scheme, which was also accompanied by the promise of a 200 billion pound ($350.5 billion) injection into the banking system, provoked a mixed reaction among jittery investors in banking stocks during early trading.
