Until a new stable regime is established and we can get an adequate number of sample years of this new regime, statistical methods of prediction will be limited in their accuracy. (searcharcticscience.org)
And despite Angola's poor ranking in corruption and ease of doing business surveys, the investors flocking there are mostly content with seeking out partnerships with strongmen of the apparently stable regime. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The timescales of the occurrence of «events» and the intervening stable regimes seem to me to vary enormously, and it could be that they are in the eye of the beholder! (globalwarmingsolved.com)