But his economy is imploding, and Mr. Gorbachev has learned that further delay in moving to markets would be catastrophic.

Wasn't Obama still campaigning for office when the economy imploded?

And Skoda had just negotiated a deal last year to build as many as 80,000 cars in Russia, when the economy there imploded.

The Tories' biggest leads were in 2007/8 before the economy imploded and after Brown bottled the election.

"Our economy is imploding," he said.

While a majority of economists might have endorsed that approach six months ago, when the Argentine economy had just imploded, it appears they no longer do.

If they did, their domestic prices would rise to global price levels, and their economy would implode even faster than it is doing.

Low interest rates made sense in Japan when the economy was imploding and consumer goods prices were falling.

Then, even as the economy imploded, the chapter stopped growing.

Asian sales suffered when that region's economies imploded.