turmoil, meltdown, credit crunch, recession, downturn, upheaval, calamity, crunch, contagion, woes, catastrophe, troubles, malaise, slowdown, turbulence, imbroglio, unrest, tumult, debacle, strife, situation, fallout, scandal, epidemic, conflict, predicament, cataclysm, slump, fiasco, impasse, economy, maelstrom, chaos, problems, disaster, instability, implosion, dilemma, armageddon, shortages, quagmire, tragedy, outbreak, stagnation, pandemic, collapse, panic, downspin, underpopulation, jitters, exigency, difficulties, boom, shortfall, morass, hyperinflation, scarcities, standoff, hardship, inflationary spiral, irresponsibility, financial, mess, stalemate, famine, weimar republic, bloodbath, riots, doldrums, economic, conflagration, tensions, ructions, schism, imbalances, conundrum, misgovernment, controversy, stagflation, uncertainty, diaster, realities, anxieties, revolt, direness, holocaust, furor, vicious circle, volatility, unsettlement, dispute, firestorm, underconsumption, heatwave, shockwaves, reforms, selloff, uprisings, insolvency, disequilibrium, devastation, deteriorations, crises, emergency, concerns, revolution, upheavals, disasters, embarrassments, ills, insecurities, threat, trauma, grief, process, drought, presurgical, punishment, aftercare, arousal, context, cycle, depression, goal, injury, learning, modeling, problem

critical point, crossroads, emergency, exigency, juncture, pinch

., acritical, alert, coolheaded, crisis intervention, critical, critical point, crossroads, crucial, de-escalate, de-escalation, decisive, defensively, depend, duchess of windsor, duke of windsor, dunkirk, edward viii, emergency, exigency, extra, feeling, full-blown, great, great depression, important, induce, inefficiently, information warfare, iw, juncture, last-ditch, listless, martial law, mrs. simpson, noncritical, noncrucial, offensively, ongoing, pinch, precipitate, presence of mind, rebound, rock, sensibly, shakable, simpson, subvert, unflappable, unintelligently, wallis warfield simpson, wallis warfield windsor

juncture, occasion, situation, state of affairs