At its Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday, it noted that "hiring appears to have picked up" and concluded that at this juncture the monetary "policy accommodation" -- meaning the extraordinarily low interest rates -- "can be removed at a pace that is likely to be measured".
For AMD, it means gaining access to a much bigger chunk of the console gaming industry, at a crucial juncture: the desktop and notebook PC market is shrinking, facing increasing encroachment from devices like the iPad, meaning there's less room to vie with Intel for market share in a space where Intel already clearly dominates.
Hey ho! (Would it be a little smug of us, at this juncture, to bring up the fact that Badwan was educated at the prestigious boarding school Rugby, alma mater of Neville Chamberlain and the Plebgate star, Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, where the biggest insult you can apparently give someone is to call them a Tanner, meaning a day boy? It would? Oh).
And because of the political realignment that began in 1980 (when the term "Reagan Democrats" -- meaning ethnic whites -- entered the lexicon) and reached its apex in 1994, when the South tipped into the Republican column, the voters who are most susceptible to such appeals reside, at this juncture in our politics, primarily in the Republican base.
We're so much alike, evaluating our lives at this juncture; hoping to find real meaning in what we do.
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is "safe" and "accepted" by the majority is permitted).
She goes on, "Try at this juncture simply to accept that what you have undergone has a meaning and purpose which you may one day understand".
While the Neo-Confucian affirmation that words convey significant meaning might seem commonplace, it was hardly so at the juncture of Japan's medieval and early modern history.
