2004 State of the Union Address

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President Bush’s new space plans may be enormously expensive, maddeningly vague, and scientifically dubious, but they came as good news to the aerospace industry.

Thanks to the shuttle disaster, a budget crisis at NASA, and the failure of the International Space Station to generate much interest, the U.S. space program has been faltering. So, too, has the industry that serves it. As Flight International, a trade publication, recently put it, the past two years have been "among the most miserable ever for many parts of the aerospace industry."

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By DAVID E. SANGER and NEIL MacFARQUHAR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 — Two years after President Bush described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil" — perhaps the signature phrase of his presidency — his foreign policy aides contend that his uncompromising language and willingness to use military force have changed the behavior of potential enemies.

But that change has come at a cost, government officials from Asia to the Islamic world say, as resistance to Mr. Bush's calls for reform and democratization has hardened in some places.

Mr. Bush plans to return to the theme of reform in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, his aides say, though he will not repeat the phrase that prompted an outcry from his critics and allies alike.

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