But no one expected a price war, an event so rare here that it has a lot of people openly nervous.

"The closer we get the more nervous people are going to get."

If you don't take money when somebody puts it in your hand, you're going to make a lot of people very nervous.

Ms. Cash said she had talked to many nervous people.

"This is later than it's been in a decade and there are a lot of nervous people around," he said.

He seemed fit, which was more than I could say for his parents, the two most nervous people I'd ever known.

However, many of the nervous people wanted to jump first.

So calling the Academy would only make a lot of people very nervous, which wouldn't solve anything.

I have two nervous people here - my wife and my attorney.

But I can tell you professionally there are a lot of nervous people around.