It is an immense amount of work, produced on a regime, whether it was drugs or alcohol, that eventually took its toll in the form of a great depression during the last year of his life, and an early - but much wished for - death.
"He put an eagle insignia on the glass door entrance to the offices," Ms. Alhadeff writes, "and it was clear from that time on that we worked for a regime".
In the wake of the financial crisis, banking regulators are working on a "resolution regime" to ensure that failing banks are dealt with swiftly and with the minimum of economic damage.
Goldberg worked with the client to strengthen all aspects of his life: they worked on a fitness regime, she guided him in buying a dog to work on caring for something bigger than himself, she encouraged friend relationships and together they de-cluttered his apartment.
The argument sometimes masks the real forces at work — a regime bent on exploiting society's divisions, an opposition so far incapable of providing an alternative, and deepening strife that has drawn in not only the government and defectors, but also gangs and criminals.
When Mr. Panahi was subsequently accused of working on an "anti-regime" film and jailed in 2010, Iran's most famous filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami, demanded his release in an open letter, and then made an issue of his detention at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
The pension bill, the flagship reform of Mr. Sarkozy's five-year term, seeks to balance the finances of a system where pensioners rely on taxes paid by working people, a regime that is under increasing strain as the "baby boom" generation born after World War II retires.
He said: "Of course we want the maximum pressure from world opinion, from diplomatic work, on the Syrian regime not to do these things again.
Here's another snippet of what the foreign secretary had to say, comments which indicate the appetite for diplomatic pressure is running out: Of course we want the maximum pressure from world opinion, from diplomatic work, on the Syrian regime not to do these things again.
Our analysis shows that 'success' in reaching agreement in land use conflicts can be better understood when political science's work on policy regimes and their background conditions is combined with planning theory's work on deliberative processes.
