It was a far more dangerous juncture.
McDowell's issue seems more serious at this juncture, but Manager Fredi Gonzalez said McDowell, who is in his sixth season with the Braves, should not be fired.
"Furthermore, any action that the staff might take is in our view fundamentally unfounded and would pose serious disruption at this juncture in the capital markets.
"I wasn't able to behave coolly at a critical juncture and made serious errors in judgment," he said, according to a court transcript.
Here we are at this uncomfortable juncture at which serious crimes committed by college football players and cheating by athletic programs are no longer unusual or occasional but almost commonplace.
But the people around Gore, and evidently the candidate himself, seem to believe that to present him to the voters as he really is — a serious man who at every juncture has pushed himself hard, who cares about doing right, who has developed passion and expertise, who has a sense of the world, who has devoted himself to public life — couldn't possibly work.
We're moving into the end of the year with the federal funds rate at a bloated 4.25%, and quite frankly, there are some serious market concerns at this juncture.
Craig Levein's position as the Scotland manager, at that juncture, was even under serious threat less than a year after he accepted the post.
On Friday, Mr. Niederauer and the Deutsche Borse chief executive, Reto Francioni, wrote a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission and Mr. Almunia's superior, expressing "profound concern" that blocking the takeover "would represent a serious missed opportunity at a critical juncture for Europe".
At the juncture between popular and serious music, the composer Kurt Weill collaborated with the poet and dramatist Bertolt Brecht to create in 1928 Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), a bitterly satiric musical play in which the world of modern capitalism was equated with that of underworld gangsterism.
