Furthermore, as with Tresor club in Berlin, it shares a privileged relationship with the musicians of Detroit techno in the so-called "Berlin-Detroit axis".

Of Russia's goals in the Far East, Andrew M. Fox, the British chairman of an investment firm here who is trying to start an investment company in North Korea, said: "It would make sense for Putin to be reasonably friendly with the countries of so-called axis of evil.

Later, Mr. Bush included North Korea in his so-called axis of evil.

Ask a South Korean on the streets of this city what he or she thinks about President Bush's recent statements including North Korea in a so-called axis of evil and many will say they are shocked and even insulted.

Along an axial direction, so-called easy axis, the magnetic moments tend to align.

On Monday, his deputy, Georgi Mamedov, told reporters that Mr. Bolton's presentation to him had been unconvincing, and suggested that American belligerence toward North Korea and other nations in the so-called axis of evil were at the root of world tensions.

Even Iran, part of the so-called axis of evil, has some elected leaders with real authority.

The projections on the rotor are arranged to introduce internal flux "barriers", holes which direct the magnetic flux along the so-called direct axis.

Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il have something in common: not the so-called axis of evil, but the fact that neither can take yes for an answer.

North Korea has been named by the George W. Bush Administration as part of the so-called "axis of evil".