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US
/ˈɡɔɹbəˌtʃɔf, ˈɡɔɹbətʃɛv/
]
NOUN
- Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)
How To Use Gorbachev In A Sentence
- But Gorbachev too was influenced by Western disarmament groups, and even initiated a nuclear testing moratorium at their suggestion.
- She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark. Centipede
- Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief military adviser to Gorbachev, committed suicide on Aug. 24.
- Mr Gorbachev took several questions from the floor, before being bustled off in a people carrier to meet the Earl of Harewood for dinner.
- The state of those relations, on Gorbachev's accession, was not an encouraging one.
- Gorbachev failed to keep the component parts of the Soviet Union together.
- To restructure the Soviet economy before it collapsed, Gorbachev announced an agenda of rapid reform, based upon what he called perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost WN.com - Articles related to Iran's June inflation rate falls to 9.4%
- It is not condemning Gorbachev to point out the confusion surrounding the dismantling of the Soviet Union as a political entity.
- Ivashko adjourned the meeting, and the politburo went into emergency session, emerging to announce its unanimous backing for Gorbachev.
- Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted.